| He cringes at his own stupidity for mentioning the residency gig the last time Gwynn had been in town. |
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| Everyone cringes when an actor flubs his lines or when a skater trips over her toes. |
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| One cringes at his bitterness, peevishness, and narcissism, but one also respects him for the fact that he cringes, too. |
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| He hallucinates three suns in the sky and cringes under the piano. |
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| The retired journalist who worked alongside Litman as a reporter, then as features sub-editor, cringes at some of the mistakes she spies in newspapers and hears on the radio. |
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| The G8 has nothing to do with the outgoing Grand Prix, and GM probably cringes when they hear the names of the two cars in the same sentence. |
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| He cringes at the thought of going on a talk show and does not particularly enjoy premiere walks along the red carpet. |
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| A stickler for the rules of grammar, Mrs. Walker cringes when she encounters any abusage by the students in her freshman English class. |
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| That's why she cringes when he blasts the car radio or turns up the TV to ear-splitting levels and doesn't understand why he can't smell that piece of broccoli liquefying at the back of the vegetable crisper. |
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| One cringes as she relives a meeting, early in her career, with a male boss and customers at a notorious strip club, where even the staff girls were too embarrassed to do their table dances until she had left. |
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| Cassandra cringes lest such commercial tactics prove true. |
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| Britney's long-awaited comeback in 2007 was met with widespread cringes as she stumbled through a lacklustre, lip-synched performance with a lifeless expression on her face. |
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| The potato bug, also known as the Jerusalem cricket, drew the most cringes. |
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| I am someone who cringes when I hear a description of a sprained ankle. |
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