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Example sentences for: wince

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

You have gone far geographically, and, I was going to say, careerwise, but as your mother is a strict grammarian I knew she would wince at that "wise" ending.
Reviews of the latest farce from the British satirist both wince and smirk at its unrelenting scatological humor and unflattering sendups of authors Robert Hughes and Oliver Sacks.
(Did she smile, or was that a wince?)
There are moments (like Flek's sermon) when this novel can make you wince.
However, as Jack Shafer noted in , there are plenty of other people out there who could meet and exceed their 1999 running total of $255 million and not even wince.