Example sentences for: cringing

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

  • Which is what Journal news employees are instructed to say whenever the editorial page causes them cringing embarrassment.

  • But not wallowing in a moral swamp, like those cringing thieves at Time magazine.

  • He arrived sitting up in his stretcher, cringing in pain and risking paralysis.

  • Less amusing, but more typical, is an 1983 essay by James Atlas in The Atlantic Monthly , in which he offers up the spectacle of himself cringing at the feet of the New York intellectuals who helped him with his biography of poet Delmore Schwartz--and equally nasty portraits of the intellectuals themselves.

  • The audience, meanwhile, ends up cringing and squirming on behalf of his dates, some of whom are appalled to the point of violence and litigation by the revelation of a hidden camera.


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