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Example sentences for: cringed

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

This is one reason why some of us cringed when Ron Brown began taking planeloads of businessmen off on sales trips to China and so on.
But now we have the Send key, that great enabler of the slipshod thought, and verily I have not mastered the button, because as soon as the coffee kicked in this morning, I cringed at what I saw.
Cohen reminds us that the U.S. never "cringed at the feet of communist or fascist bullies" and warns terrorist-friendly states that they are "not beyond the reach of America's military might."
Governments around the world cringed, many protested, and the bombing had to be halted.
And doctors everywhere cringed.