Sentence examples for flinch about from inspiring English sources

The phrase "flinch about" is not a grammatically correct phrase.
It is possible that the intended phrase was "flinch at," which means to react with fear or hesitation to something. This phrase is commonly used in both spoken and written English. Example: Sarah couldn't help but flinch at the thought of speaking in front of a large crowd.

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Independent voters may now flinch about the nastiness of a Clinton White House.It is still probably—just Mrs Clinton's race to lose.

Is by eating worms like I don't even flinch about it".

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He never flinched about taking photos of the most brutalized bodies.

I was able to wake up in the morning without flinching about my neck.

As a women of color and most times being in a minority group in the workplace has meant standing firm on what I believe, what I represented and not flinching about my self-worth and place in the places I stood.

Radzinsky does not flinch from scandal about the marital breakups, the drunken orgies and the liaisons of all sorts that crisscrossed the Russian court.

He doesn't flinch when asked about some of his more unseemly moments, like the time he missed Noah's big movie premiere at the Berlin Film Festival because of crack.

And she is as good at finding the words men use to anaesthetise themselves in the brute callousness of war as she is at navigating the tentativeness of new lovers undressing for the first time.Readers who wonder why writers as talented as Martin Amis and the 2006 Man Booker prize-winner, Kiran Desai, seem to flinch from writing about their own times should study Ms Seiffert.

And, unlike Sandberg, Weissman-Unni doesn't flinch when talking about the downside of ambition, or even just survival.

Each time these ideas are brought up in the US, we balk and flinch and scream about the end of the world.

"I took it on as a burden because I loved him so much – I should have just said 'Fuck  you!'" I tell Jones that I flinched reading about her doing pushups straight after birth to prove a point to Goude (she also went water-skiing with Blackwell).

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