Example sentences for: wince

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

  • As Ed's unconvincing life runs its increasingly public course, Howard cuts to the folks at home--a Black Couple, a Gay Couple, an Old Couple, a bunch of Single Guys--who wince at him cutting his toenails or cheer on his conquests.

  • Even when we scorn yet another neologism with -athon , or ridicule a new -gate (as in Irangate ), or wince at alcoholic becoming chocoholic , it has already made us concentrate on language and refreshed our interest by whetting our humor.

  • One characterized Massoud's body language as "a wince."

  • Hard not to wince at the notion of belonging to a Dawn cult.

  • 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.


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