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How to use flinch in a sentence

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She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
Elizabeth Long-ford does not flinch from laying historical truths bare, rendering her Wellington an involving work.
Even those who don't flinch at the sight of physical deformity may be socially uncomfortable around someone with a handicap.
He felt her hand clasp on top of his, but he didn't move his, not even a flinch as she touched.
The threatening tone in which he uttered those words would once have made her flinch, but she did not.
They flinch at the sound of that laugh, but they keep edging forward, nerving themselves for the final rush.
He watched, perhaps with a bit of a flinch as I unslung the laptop and set it down, rotating it toward him and tapping the keyboard.
The families insisted that the filmmakers should not flinch from telling the real story for fear of upsetting them, he said.
He gets cheffy sometimes, but he doesn't flinch about pencilling fish fingers into the mix, either.
Maurice, seeing the slave's light skin did not flinch, he had seen and heard tales of white slaves.
She did not seem to flinch from the subject, though she portrayed it harrowingly.
I do not even flinch when I hear them whispering that I'll die an old maid, impecunious and alone in my bed.
Laotian children may fear ghosts, but, growing up among Buddhist principles and culture, they don't even flinch at the sight of a mummy.
Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch.
As he looked right at me, cigarette teetering on his lower lip with his mouth slightly open, he didn't flinch.
But this was David, who had seen him in a highly compromising situation without a flinch or a blush.
Christopher hesitantly reached up to hold the paper, giving a flinch when Sara's hands grabbed hold of his and guided the tearing action.
Even at one in the morning, they did not flinch when a roaring explosion of fire and smoke lit the sky behind them.
A slap, like the crack of a whip, made me flinch as if Mum had slapped me instead of Dad.
If they flinch during the act, boys bring shame and dishonor to themselves and their family.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She caught her breath, but did not flinch as the tumbling waters seethed and yammered around her.
Yet she did not flinch in her certainty that nemesis must be obeyed and even aided.
The case has been conceded to him in advance, and the libertarian can only flinch from his logic.
I felt my mind flinch, because introverting a Place is several degrees worse than foxholing.
Yet she did not flinch, nor did a single symptom of panic or fear cross her face.
Pres sure between the ribs gives pain and usually causes the animal to flinch and grunt.
Drew snapped a shot at the Yankee guidon bearer, certain he saw the man flinch.
The perfume of violet scent was almost unbearable, but he did not flinch.
It was a painful journey downstairs, but Polly did not flinch.
The dog did not live that could take a full-arm whip-slash without wince or flinch.
Not this time would I flinch from what consequences might follow.
She did not flinch from the pain which I knew she must have suffered, but looked at him with eyes that were more appealing than ever.
The long, low howl rose and fell, and Mowgli saw Messua's husband flinch and turn, half minded to run back to the hut.
I have faced death too often to flinch from it now, though I saw it as near me as you are.
His duty lay very plain before him, and he would not flinch.
Yet I have seen Johnston shoot these twenty years, and I will not flinch from it.
Ginevra knew the extent of the peril before her, but she did not flinch.
The precious piece of furniture which on the Atlantic voyage is trusted never to flinch among universal concussions was emblazoned simply with his title and name.
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