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How to use cringing in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cringing? Here are some examples.

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I creep downstairs, cringing at the creaking of every hardwood step as I make my way down.
I remember cringing in the kitchen while he raged about drunkenly in the dark.
She dipped it in the salty water, cringing, and moved it back and forth, spreading the blood.
Editors around the country are likely peering at their calendars, noting the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and cringing.
The essay continues in the style of its conception and her sentimental and syrupy excess will have you cringing throughout.
When used at the table it imparts a slight saltiness without the brackishness or lip cringing effect of other salts.
She sat immobile for a moment before coming back to the present with a quick shake of her head, immediately cringing and shying away from him.
He grew up as a cringing youth, and eventually became a bank robber and had to flee the country.
Why should everyone pussyfoot around with expensive breakfasts and cringing favor-trading?
It is indicative of the cringing attitude of business schools before the business world they purport to study.
The valet exploits his master's weaknesses until he turns the tables: the story ends with a cringing Fox ministering to a lordly Bogarde.
David Colville: When Michael was up here, he raised these issues and I was cringing a bit.
Men went along the trenches bombing the shelters, whose occupants then came out, some of them cringing like beaten animals.
He laughed at my pitifulness, the way I was cringing and crying.
A music teacher who was told her students were so bad they left an audience of parents cringing with embarrassment has won her claim for constructive dismissal.
Which is understandable, but a touch of balance would make him sound a tad more professional and perhaps make it possible to listen to him without cringing.
But cheering for the message of self-empowerment quickly shifted to cringing.
In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.
You could almost hear Kagan, Breyer and Ginsburg cringing every time she spoke.
The video has 1.5 million views on YouTube and became an Internet sensation that had many simultaneously laughing and cringing.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Cockney voice suggested a mean, back-bent creature with bitten nails and cunning eyes, a Uriah Heep, cringing but sinister.
He was impudently cringing to us and systematically insolent to the officers.
He gesticulated, he swore and he pummelled the cringing Hentzi.
He was a little man, withered by age, and with a cringing manner.
The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
It was not often that poor, cringing jocko ventured to question him.
Most cringing to the aristocracy, whom he toadies and courts.
White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.
He came toward us, humble and cringing, giving the beautiful Arab salute.
He was cringing back, white-faced, from the edge of the gulch.
He stalked up to the cringing Harper, thrust his face toward him.
Cowardice and a cringing humility were not regarded as faults in a slave.
There was Baseek, a grizzled old fellow that in his younger days had but to uncover his fangs to send White Fang cringing and crouching to the right about.
In all his cringing attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known.
A cringing worm is what you want, not a bright, smiling child.
She was merely his chattel now, his convenience, his dog, his cringing and helpless slave, the humble and unresisting victim of his capricious temper and vicious nature.
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