Example sentences for: cringe

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

  • Throughout this enthralling tale, one feels a "please don't hit me" cringe coming from the author.

  • Our mother certainly never treated us this way, and it makes cringe to think of what these comments might be doing to the girls.

  • 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.

  • The children would cringe and hide while the parents defended them.

  • Each time I see the erectile dysfunction ad with Bob Dole, I cringe.


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