Sentence examples for twinge of conscience from inspiring English sources
The phrase "twinge of conscience" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a feeling of guilt or regret you may experience if you have done something wrong or something you regret. For example: He felt a twinge of conscience knowing that he had let his friend down.
Far out over the Atlantic, as you approach Greenland, a twinge of conscience hits you.
I can't remember the smallest twinge of conscience at the deflated faces of the boys I betrayed.
With environmentalists deriding his company's new profit leader as the "Ford Valdez," Mr. Ford understandably feels a twinge of conscience.
It seems silly to write about it now, but when I got back in the van with Grant I felt a twinge of conscience.
Maggie had recently seen Hillyer, now an old bum, & had a twinge of conscience from her Catholic childhood, though she'd never felt she'd sinned with any of them--she'd loved them all, at the time.
But a twinge of conscience, or a twist of pain at the memory of those misdeeds which drove him from America in the first place, won't let him kill.
Mr. Sheikh occasionally had twinges of conscience, never more so than with Rhys Partridge, a Briton with a bent for Buddhism, chess and travel.
Nathaniel Parker's handsome, strapping Henry VIII subtly shows you a man who can bring himself to believe what he needs to believe but not without some self-pitying twinges of conscience.
But before she tells me about her softly spoken but radical plans for the decade-long, £15,000-a-year appointment, I ask if she felt any twinges of conscience in taking up the job.
She and the smitten boy next door Rudy Nico Lierschh) join the Hitler Youth and goose-step around town burning books and fetishising der Führer as little twinges of conscience and doubt slowly begin to manifest themselves.
We felt twinges of conscience over our never having leaned firs aid, but these subsided when a warden told us about a man who had become so infatuated with first aid that he was now waiting his chance to perform an emergency Caesarian with a piece of broken glass.
