[ UK /flˈɪnt‍ʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɪntʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. draw back, as with fear or pain
    she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
NOUN
  1. a reflex response to sudden pain
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How To Use flinch In A Sentence

  • He did not flinch as the verdict was read to a hushed court - and his hopes of divine intervention were vanquished.
  • She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
  • “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law” is the first book to look unflinchingly at the tragic cases of children who have died because their parents place absolute faith in the power of prayer rather than in the efficacy of modern medicine. Christian Scientists pushing change in Wisconsin prayer law
  • Unflinching in its attacks, A Ma Soeur is a brilliant piece by an uncompromising and distinctive auteur.
  • Then she flinched, thinking herself completely stupid, blunt and tactless.
  • The fighter could not help flinching from the blow aimed by his opponent,but it saved him from being hurt.
  • Some of us standing in front of the Palace flinched when the first salvo was fired. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even Englishmen who had some sneaking sympathy for the Stuart cause, you were to understand, must have flinched from its wild embodiment.
  • He hardly flinched when he was hit.
  • Hunter is unflinching in her commitment to telling a persuasive story, but she is a romantic too.
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