wincing
- present participle of wince.
Example Sentences
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“I love bacon and chicharrónes, but I could never eat pork uterus,” I confess, wincing at our 60” Insignia television screen.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Not Brody, whose chiseled, wiry presence is ever in motion, flailing, ducking, wincing, yearning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Italy suffered a blow when Madsen fell awkwardly while trying to stop a boundary in the fourth over and went off the field wincing in pain with what looked like a dislocated shoulder.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
Tina Brown called American Canto “absurdly pretentious,” wincing at its repeated invocations of Joan Didion’s unsettling Santa Ana winds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
“Um, well...nobody,” he said, wincing a little as he met her gaze.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
