twinge
noun
a sudden, sharp pain.
twinging
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present participleof twinge.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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She still lives simply, and enjoys good health; but she tells me if she tastes flesh meat, it produces a twinging in the breast.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
They both got up and looked at a couple of the hornets twinging on the ground as they died.
From Scorched Earth by Walter D. Petrovic
Thai forcome me in daie of twinging, And made es Layered mi forhiling.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
The weak and exquisite sweetness of her smile, as she lay in bed under the stress of twinging pain amid hot-water bottles, was amazing to Sophia.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
When the last twinging tremour had run through the racked body, she leaned over and kissed her father full on the lips.
From The Shepherd of the North by Richard Aumerle Maher
