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• He was a stone-cold killer: he didn't flinch as he took the shot.From the entry stone-cold
• I want to touch him, but I'm scared he'll flinch away.2023 October 10, Clare Gilmore, Love Interest: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN. From the entry gutter
• I didn't tell my parents, but I flinched if an Asian-looking man came close.2013, Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala. From the entry Asian
• Confronted with the savage defenses, many of the Japanese pilots flinched.2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 17…. From the entry kiss of death
• None of the youths – ages 16 to 26 – appeared to flinch.2007 November 1, “Trial by ordeal makes the guilty burn but ‘undermines justice’”, in IRIN, archived from the original on 06 May 2017. From the entry sassywood
• Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241. From the entry brolga
• "Two for flinching!" She held out her wrist, and he flicked it twice with his knuckles.1974, Jeannie Sakol, New Year's Eve: A Novel, page 304. From the entry two for flinching
• I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.1968, Charles Portis, True Grit. From the entry crawfish
• Somehow, her blanked face did not even flinch.2021, Blair Babylon, Royal Romance Superbundle Boxed Set: Billionaires in Love. From the entry blanked
• James's methodology that we don't flinch when he classifies the murder of JonBenet Ramsey as an "IQBX 9."2011 June 3, Nathaniel Rich, “Bill James's 'Popular Crime' - Review”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry Jamesian
• Paris didn't flinch as Alize moved within an inch of her mouth and began caressing the side of her face.2006, Christal Jordan-Mims, Under the Cherry Moon, page 143. From the entry Alize
• "Two for flinching!" Triumphant, she took his wrist and hit it as hard as she could with two extended fingers.1974, Jeannie Sakol, New Year's Eve: A Novel, page 304. From the entry two for flinching
• Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.1955 March 1, Winston Churchill, “Defence”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 1905. From the entry meanwhile
• Most of the words came straight through the girls’ neat little well-powdered noses, which didn’t flinch at all.1925 January 20, Nettie Palmer, “Buttahflays and Frogs”, in The Australian Woman’s Mirror, volume 1, number 9, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] Henry…. From the entry boned
• Her touch was inhuman, cold and glassy like a porcelain doll, but after her initial flinch Fancy relaxed into her grandcestor's embrace.2011, Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry grandcestor
• One head of a small gay charity visibly flinched when I mentioned my boyfriend and has been cold towards me ever since.2010 March 3, Jessica Green, “I'm sorry, I'm not lesbian: My being a straight editor of Pink News has confused and angered some – but it…. From the entry transgender
• Our pains cause us to flinch.2009, David Branddon-Mitchell, edited by John Symons and Paco Calvo, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, London; New…. From the entry eliminative behaviourism
• But Warner still flinches at being called a poet, because she detects in the term an insinuation that her sensibility is too literary to be unimpeachably hip-hop.2023 August 20, Kelefa Sanneh, “Noname’s Ambivalent, Triumphant Comeback”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN. From the entry unimpeachably
• I was so grateful to have held the reaction at bay that I didn’t even flinch when the journalist’s wife gave me a frostinged kiss good night.2011, Sandra Beasley, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry frostinged
• Though WOW has yet to flinch from the upcoming third-generation MMOs, Crusade – which will be done when it’s done – should further swell its chest.2006 July, “WOW: The Burning Crusade”, in Edge, number 164, page 53. From the entry wow
• People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry courtier
• I have little doubt that if President Obama’s economic recovery plan were for Iraq, Republicans would pass it without flinching because, of course, anyone who balked would be considered antipatriotic.2009 February 10, “The Showdown Over the Stimulus”, in New York Times. From the entry antipatriotic

Meaning of flinch

1. noun A reflexive jerking away.
2. noun The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
3. verb To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.

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Questions about flinch in a sentence

How do you use flinch in a sentence?

Flinch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “My eye doctor hates the flinch I have every time he tries to get near my eyes.”

What is a short sentence with flinch?

“Our pains cause us to flinch.”

What does flinch mean?

Flinch means a reflexive jerking away.