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“I’m sure our doctors were cringing the first time we threw the ball to him,” Kelly said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2019

Finally she turned her face toward them and Olanna looked at her: a plain village girl curled up on the bed as if she were cringing from one more furious blow from life.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There were cringing, fawning epistles, written with a smirk and sealed with a scowl; some there were couched in a refinement of cruelty that cut like a knife.

From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley

"Match-es," they murmured; and when she had struck a light she saw how the two were cringing, their blankets huddled round them.

From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen