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Example sentences for: cringe

How can you use “cringe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

At a time when dumb one-liners and tasteless jokes can be tossed off on TV and elsewhere as examples of wit without causing anyone to cringe, perhaps the moment has arrived to make some distinctions and straighten out the nomenclature among those terms that fall under the umbrella of eliciting laughter.
Throughout this enthralling tale, one feels a "please don't hit me" cringe coming from the author.
I cringe when I hear someone refer to "the Salt Lake City scandal," because, while the people from SLC weren't right, the real culprits were the IOC members with their hands out, palms up.
Kurtz goes on to say that "aides sometimes cringe at McCain's flights of candor."
Male critics cringe at Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady ; female critics call it her masterwork.