Sentence examples for a flinch from inspiring English sources

"a flinch" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is usually used to describe a quick or involuntary movement in response to something, usually fear. For example: At the sound of the gunshot, he gave a flinch.

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In a flinch they are gone.

I feel a flinch of annoyance.

J.G.: I think the Arabs saw that as a flinch.

Living on a river in Michigan, she downs bucks without a flinch.

"That's exactly what we're talking about," Dr. Shalala said, with nary a flinch.

Manuel later said Reyes might have made "a flinch" toward second.

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Outside, winter rained its gray mood on a flinching city.

Duggan made "a flinching movement which has caused his body to move to the right", he told the court.

Possibly, her writing indicates a flinching, less than complete apprehension of that shape-shifting Lord of Misrule.

There is a flinching that goes on when you face these things, and almost from the moment you succumb to the temptation to dramatise in any way you are succumbing to the temptation to flinch.

A skin flinch and/or a head turn towards the probe, was considered a positive reaction.

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