Sentence examples for flinched from from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "flinched from" can be used in written English.
It is a common expression that means to shrink away or recoil in fear or hesitation. Example: The dog flinched from the thunder, cowering under the table.

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And yet part of me flinched from the Bushes' moral indignation.

But the Jewish Museum has not flinched from efforts to make the story viewer-friendly.

But as the race has become bitter, he has not flinched from the fight.

Yet he never flinched from the contest, never went for glory above resolution.

But Barbara never flinched from taking on the cause of equal pay.

Our forebears never flinched from modernising the Conservative party, so why should we?

But Matthews hasn't flinched from the challenge in his piece, Grand Barcarolle.

There is, in the Choephori, a scene and dialogue which even Shakespeare might have flinched from.

Maybe I have flinched from the subject because it is so ghastly and depressing.

On his way upstairs to bed, the young Gardiner always flinched from the zealot's "forbidding stare".

Maddox can, for example, discuss Franklin's sexuality, which Sayre flinched from doing.

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