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• The whole crowd cringed as he got kicked in his crown jewels.From the entry crown jewels
• The whole crowd cringed as he got hit right in the family jewels.From the entry family jewels
• He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.From the entry crotch
• Millennial cringe may include skinny jeans, using the laugh-cry emoji 😂, over-sharing on social media, or obsessing over "adulting".From the entry millennial cringe
• If you need to be fired up to embrace cringe, just compare yourself to these people.2025, Case Kenny, The Opposite of Settling: How to Get Everything You Want Out of Love and Life Without Losing Your Spark, page 44. From the entry do not kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes
• Every time I see another Romance IAL or Spanish-French-Italian-frankenlang I cringe so hard.2024 May 16, u/ImplodingRain, “Which clichés or overused/trendy features are you tired of seeing in conlangs?”, in r/conlangs (Reddit…. From the entry frankenlang
• You cringe, morbidly; thank God someone out there is clockier than you.2022 March 1, Charlie Markbreiter, “"Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric": Trans Assimilation and Cringe”, in The New Inquiry. From the entry clocky
• It wont make your tradlarp less cringe but at least you’ll be less of a hypocrite.2021 September 4, u/78zrVckw39rF7332J8Z9, “Consoom politics through trite superhero references”, in Reddit, r/Consoom. From the entry tradlarp
• ABDLism is pretty taboo, many people will cringe or look down upon this sort of stuff.2020 April 23, shytweenie, “How much do you think the community is growing by?”, in ADISC.org. From the entry TBDL
• It makes me cringe, gives me douche chills, and I know I'm not alone.2018, Mark D. Trollinger, Champ and a Bit of Sunshine, page 75. From the entry douche chills
• Who has cringed unto the dust and let fall the sword from his hand?2018, Zygmunt Krasiński, translated by Charles S. Kraszewski, Dramatic Works, London: Glagoslav Publications, →ISBN. From the entry doddard
• So much so that the preceding sentence just made him cringe.2016 November 12, SomeGuyNamedTony, “The Dune, and Stephen King's adverbophobia”, in StephenKing.com Message Board. From the entry irrationally
• It creeps in upon her, and she cringes into a ball to escape from it.2015, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life. From the entry torturingly
• Other names that don't make me cringe are boy hole and front hole”.2015, Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes, Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s…. From the entry front hole
• So I cringe when they are regarded as kitsch and retro, a birrova laff.2014, Jason Winstanley, Media Unfriendly. From the entry birrova
• Startled at the term "Mumsy" instead of the usual "Mam," Mary Joy cringed a little inside.2009, Lillian M. Henry, In Bristol Fashion, AuthorHouse, page 202. From the entry mumsy
• Training kids to perform a series of academic stunts in sixty-minute time slots makes me cringe.2008, Lori L. Conrad, Missy Matthews, Cheryl Zimmerman, Put Thinking to the Test, page 6. From the entry 'tis the season
• Am I right?’ They cringe, don′t know what a ‘mollydooker’ is.2003, Joy Dettman, Henry′s Daughter, page 45. From the entry mollydooker
• There were times when his kind of leadership made her cringe.2000, Dee Henderson, chapter 5, in True Devotion (Uncommon Heroes; book 1), Sisters, Or.: Palisades, →ISBN; republished Carol Stream…. From the entry box
• Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams?1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13. From the entry mountebank
• Manhunt is cool edgy unlike Postal which is cringe edgy.2025 March 26, Dawood, chuds.life. From the entry updooterino
• This style is now heavily associated with “cringe culture” and, like emojipasta, can signal a mocking style through its presence alone.2022, Sara Haskin Rosenau, "Mock Koreaboo: Appropriating Appropriation", thesis submitted to the University of Colorado, page 15. From the entry emojipasta
• The remaining residents cringed at the sight of Trayer's face; the left side of his cheek had been severely rugburned.2021, Mr. J, The Stories You Ignore, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry rugburn
• But even imagining that scenario makes me cringe.2019 August 9, Marisa L. Manuel, “I'm Asexual. This Is What It's Like For Me To Date.”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 09 Jun…. From the entry maybeness
• In contrast, the convoys of tour buses filled with mainland Chinese tourists have caused many Taiwanese to cringe.2017 February 21, Klaus Bardenhagen (tko), “Taiwan reduces reliance on mainland Chinese tourists”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the…. From the entry Alishan
• Despite my exemplary service, I got RIFed.” Ginger cringed at the raw sarcasm in his voice, but wanted clarification.2016, Jenna Mindel, A Soldier's Valentine. From the entry rif
• I didn't want him to sense my fear but cringed as he peered down at my underdeveloped and pubeless body.2013, John Tovey, Veronica Clark, A Dog Called Dez. From the entry pubeless
• My mother, who probably dug up the name Melvin from some romantic novel about Englishmen drinking tea, cringed at the "Pete".1976, Melvin Belli, My Life on Trial: An Autobiography, Morrow, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry melvin
• Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity.2023 April 23, Taylor Lorenz, “'Am I Cringey? Yes. Do I Care? Absolutely Not'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media…. From the entry furry
• Perhaps regarded as one of her funniest lines, she can taunt the enemy after eliminating them by saying, "Wow, cringe," in a fittingly condescending tone.2022 October 21, Joanna Koziol, “D.Va Is Overwatch 2's Most Toxic Character”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2022. From the entry skill issue
• He's precisely the kind of ugly American people cringe upon meeting—loud, demanding and arrogant, a bottle of Scotch never far from his elbow.2010 April 8, Linda Barnard, “The Eclipse: Ghosts among the living”, in The Star, retrieved 17 Jul 2017. From the entry Ugly American
• How do we deal with sadism and masculinism, masochism and femininism, the strut and the swagger, the cringe and the death wish?1966, Peter H. Odegard, American Government: readings and documents, page 603. From the entry femininism
• He did not know which was more painful to witness: Hempel's unmanly cringing, or the air of fatuous satisfaction that succeeded it.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix. From the entry unmanly
• It was a veritable emancipation for devil-ridden souls, ever cringing with fear before powers of darkness possessing vague but intensely real capacity for mischief.1913, James Hope Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism, London: Williams & Norgate, Lecture 4, p. 128. From the entry devil-ridden

Meaning of cringe

1. verb To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
2. verb To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
3. verb To bow or crouch in servility.

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Questions about cringe in a sentence

How do you use cringe in a sentence?

Cringe is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “He cringed as the bird collided with the window.”

What is a short sentence with cringe?

“But even imagining that scenario makes me cringe.”

What does cringe mean?

Cringe means to cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.