Example Sentences

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I had cringed at the idea that a computer could replace years of intensive composition study to generate great music.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2019

Men should be strong, brave, austere; yet her crippled professor father had cringed before pain, screaming shrilly on his deathbed: "I won't die, I won't, I won't, I won't!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The newsmen packed up their gear, relieving Molly, who had cringed at the thought of being photographed in her laden condition and having to brace up for a royal reception in Sweden.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

He had cringed, procrastinated, promised; had been abject, hypocritical, explicit.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher

It gave her a thrill to think how he had cringed before her.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)