Example Sentences

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You may have winced when I wrote above that “this may still be the best time ever to be alive.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2023

Still, they have winced while watching the price of gas tick up at the station across the street.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

We may have winced – as I did – when Madeleine Albright quoted a coffee-cup version of feminism or Hillary said “deal me in”.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2017

Had Gottfried introduced any of his Japan jokes in his comedy club routine, I doubt that any patron would have winced at his crudeness or insensitivity, let alone walked out.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2011

I must have winced at the word “normal,” because he went quiet.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover