FLINCH in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for FLINCH, such as:

1. She flinched before their dislike.
2. He hardly flinched when he was hit.
3. She flinched at the touch of his hand.
4. There was no flinching about the girl.
5. She flinched, looked at Guy beseechingly.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLINCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flinch
 v.  draw back, as with fear or pain
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  She did not flinch from the pain which I knew she must have suffered, but looked at him with eyes that were more appealing than ever.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  We shall fellow him; and we shall not flinch; even if we peril ourselves that we become like him.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  The stake we play for is life and death, or more than these, and we must not flinch.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  He had slightly emphasised his tone and he was aware that he had betrayed himself; but, though the colour had heightened in his cheek, he did not flinch from his friend's gaze.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
5  Only the barbarous and superb woman did not so much as flinch, and stretched tragically her bare arms after us over the somber and glittering river.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
6  Rhett, watching Wade's face with meditative eyes, saw the boy flinch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  I wa'n't going to flinch from my bounden duty and let her think that decent folks had to stand for her vile talk.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  He did not therefore allow her any hope that he would flinch; only he represented his action as one of simple vengeance.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
9  'Not yet, sir,' I said, flinching with the pain.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
10  There was no flinching about the girl.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  That's quite enough fuss about nothing: a soldier's daughter should be able to stand up without flinching to a little strong conversation.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, closed up their ranks without flinching.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
13  She flinched before their dislike.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  She alternately raged and flinched at the superiority of the merchants.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  She flinched, looked at Guy beseechingly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  The world community should not flinch in the face of this challenge.
2  Jones didn't flinch once when the nurse cleaned the cut in his leg.
3  The sharp surface of the rock caught at her skin, making her flinch.
4  After pausing to fearfully flinch from a quick movement her husband made, she continued.
5  In middle age he could not turn away from Goya's depictions of bayonetings; in old age he watched without flinching as Islamist terrorists crudely sawed off the heads of victims.
6  She flinched at the touch of his hand.
7  He hardly flinched when he was hit.