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.
We give them, and their families, our unflinching support. The Sun
Instinctively she had flinched, hating the delay, despite his promise to go on Thursday or Friday. FINAL RESORT
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘The owner says I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching,’ Cleaveland said proudly.
At the mention of the name the huntress automatically flinched and brought her sea green eyes onto the king with faint concern.
As for accuracy, I find if installed correctly they will shoot just as well if not better because of the reduction in flinch factor. Muzzle Brake Pros and Cons
It's a passionate, daring and unflinching look at the barbarousness of war.
She is dressed as a beggar maid, her bare shoulders and knees showing through her ripped attire, her gaze unflinching. Times, Sunday Times
Simultaneously, his own reactions to the places and people he meets are recorded with unflinching honesty. The Times Literary Supplement
A machine exists which can find and grab slugs, without flinching, and work is in progress on an electricity generator which runs on slug flesh, which the robot would be able to stoke up and then plug into for refuelling.
He stood before us smiling and open-eyed while he ran long needles into the fleshy part of his arms and legs without flinching, and he allowed one of the gentlemen present to pinch his skin in different parts with strong crenated pincers in a manner which bruised it, and which to most people would have caused intense pain. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
The sharp surface of the rock caught at her skin, making her flinch.
She met his eyes without flinching, a mutinous sparkle enlivening the depths of her own grey gaze.
He's unflinching on this: the restoration of his reputation is at stake.
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 three classic Stooges remain so special mainly because they capture young soul in utter torment with an unflinching honesty and intensity. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly England were meeting the steely Outback gaze without a flinch. Times, Sunday Times
There can be no doubt that the cold and bitter strength of Sallust; his unflinching method of building up his edifice of invective, stone by stone; his close, unidealistic, dry penetration into character; his clinical attitude, unmoved at the death-bed of a reputation; that all these qualities were directly operative on the mind and intellectual character of Ibsen, and went a long way to mould it while moulding was still possible. Henrik Ibsen
The girl's eyelids flinched, as though she was dreaming, and she tensed up momentarily before relaxing and falling into a true sleep.
I moved my bare toes slightly on the ground and flinched at the pain.
I have never underestimated the magnitude of the task before us, but nor have I flinched from my resolve that this is a road which the entire party must travel.
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.
Always an example of devotion to duty, and as unflinching as a hero in a book.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
If they flinch during the act, boys bring shame and dishonor to themselves and their family.
I knocked on his meagre chest with my fore knuckle, and fetched forth a weak, gaspy cough; but he looked at me unflinchingly, much like a defiant sparrow held in the hand. Local Color
You mustn't flinch from a difficulty.
I have stared down the barrel of a .44 caliber S and W without so much as a flinch, and here I was nervous.
At taps, he personally inspects each man with standards that would make a recruit company commander flinch, says goodnight and turns out their light.
It might be seen as an exaggeration to say the violin bows are close enough to make you flinch, but it's not far wrong. Times, Sunday Times
If she flinches, makes an outcry and tries to get up from the sofa, don't worry.
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill
Much more worrying is that there are the first signs that inside Downing Street the team is beginning to flinch in the face of such criticism. Times, Sunday Times
Steven stepped closer, signalling me to do or say something, and out the corner of my eye, I saw Paul flinch as though he was ready to throw another punch.
He could see that he had made the chaperone flinch.
Gomorrah, directed by Matteo Garrone, is an unflinching and unromantic look at the story of the Camorra - the crime syndicate, operative in Naples and Caserta, that is responsible for more murders than the IRA or Cosa Nostra. National Review Online
With a flinch, she touched the place where his lips had been.
I've since switched to a 20 gauge and suprise, my flinch is gone and the deer still die when you shoot them. How Much Kick Can You Take?
But in spite of the film's fairy tale ending, the story's unflinching portrayal of class distinction in teendom is the reason that Pretty In Pink packed such an emotional wallup during its original, Reagan-era run, and the reason it still affects people so deeply in today's economically challenging times. Susannah Gora: Pretty in Pink at 25: Still a Class Act
Call flinched, but Pea Eye didn't notice — Pea Eye was no noticer, as Augustus had often said. Lonesome Dove
I figured this last revelation would give him something to think about, but he barely flinched.
If they flinch during the act, boys bring shame and dishonor to themselves and their family.
Patrick flinches in the dock, waiting for the next barbed question, the next prosecutorial thrust. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare.
They start out tough-minded, funny and unflinching in the excavation of their characters' fears and foibles. Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow
‘The people of Nangoma are behind me and I have every reason to be confident,’ he says without a flinch or shade of doubt.
The whole way my eyes were burning at the memory of how he had flinched at the touch of a gentle hand.
The album provides comfort without flinching from sadness and bitter fury.
Not once did the woman utter a sound, any cry of pain, she simply stood there, flinching when a hard blow came down on her.
Instead of using the experiments and expressions of the ancient Savants and thinkers as a basis for our future struggle against ignorance and to try to find out a solution to this mysterious problem, we – lethargical as we have proved to be – raise the hue and cry of faith, unflinching and unwavering faith to their versions and thus are guilty of stagnation in human progress. Archive 2006-08-01
Over the span of 10 hours, The Pacific takes an unflinching look at the experiences of these men and their brothers in arms, which is nothing less than what is expected from the man responsible for the personal looks at war that he brought audiences in both Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC – Collider.com
I always flinch when I hear someone use the word decimate to mean "wipe out," as in, "The Sioux decimated Custer's men. Prayers To Broken Stones
No doubt that Cannes nod (the first of several festival laurels picked up) stirred some controversy, because this is the kind of unflinchingly provocative movie that dares you to be entertained, or appalled, or both. Reviews
She only flinched at his words as she realized that her worst fear had come true, she had been kidnapped.
Friedkin's unflinching nihilism, including one of the bleakest, most effed-up endings I've ever seen in an action movie, really kind of undid much of the movie's entertainment value, even if it strengthened its portraiture of this dangerous lifestyle. Cinematical
There is a faint trace of a smile, but he does not flinch: whatever the honorary boyo's faults, he is unlikely to be bought with a knighthood.
He flinched from nothing when sometimes he should have.
The independent inquiry 's findings are honest and unflinching. Times, Sunday Times
Above all it is the seriousness, the consistent refusal to engage in light banter or jollity, the unflinching Puritanism (as of Elders of the Kirk), indeed the crippling shyness that strike one most forcefully nearly fifty years on. Archive 2009-04-01
Noting the fact that only fifteen families constituted the population, he called St. Joseph "the leading community in pain, determination and unflinching courage in dealing with the elements around them. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
To these people I am extremely grateful, particularly professional women in their 40s who are child-free and unafraid to face life's challenges, and unflinchingly give back where they can. Deborah Smith: Faced With a Dilemma
I have stared down the barrel of a .44 caliber S and W without so much as a flinch, and here I was nervous.
We proclaimed it long ago, and never flinched from practicing it since.
Without a flinch or missing a beat, Erial continued waltzing around the floor as Artemisia sighed and walked over and picked up the book.
She didn't even flinch when Rebecca's hard gaze met hers, but simply smiled instead.
Fourteen dollars, for two coffees and two mingy blondies, which he paid without flinching, even leaving the change from his twenty in the concessionaire's plastic cup.
He flinched when Isabelle appeared beside him, anticipating another powerful hit.
When a long, thick needle was inserted into a minuscule vein on the back of her teaspoon-sized hands and she didn't even flinch, I knew she was in the best place.
This made me flinch and caused me to have a momentary lapse in concentration. Times, Sunday Times
Come now, youre an intelligent woman, and you dont flinch from the truth. Elizabeth Strout - An interview with author
When I was a teenager I read a book in which the word panties was used....how it was used scarred me for life and I can't read that word without flinching. Archive 2009-12-01
He flinches as if she were a snake.
Ms. Xin arrived at the campus in Blacksburg from Beijing on Jan. 8 to study accounting, Chief Wendell Flinchum of the university police said.
He showed unflinching altruism, risking all for people he did not know. Times, Sunday Times
Alan was a kind of unflinching coward who lived into an era of absolute cowards.
Blocks of protective ice shot up around me like the bricks of an igloo and I saw him flinch at the tone of my voice. RESCUING ROSE
It was Will who flinched now, his curiosity more than sated. SACRAMENT
I think that for a lot of people on the transition, the instinctive response to this is going to be to cause people to flinch from the idea of a serious effort at peacemaking. Matthew Yglesias » The Test
Throughout The Cookbook Collector Goodman shows herself to be a clear-sighted observer who doesn't flinch from depicting her characters' blindspots and failings. The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – review
I was afraid he was going to backhand me, so I flinched, nearly falling back.
He flinched with the force of the blow.
Unblenched (echoing unfound) suggests unflinching: is it the wind, or voice of the moment forming a memory? Times, Sunday Times
However, I forgive him for having the courage to go after some rather unsavory plot developments, no holds barred, and not flinch from the nastier things his protagonists do. Is it just another children's story that's been declawed?
He is unflinching in his descriptions of the ritual humiliations of a writer in Hollywood.
He said: "Maggie not only is one of our finest actresses, she's also what we call a trooper, she would just get on with her work and she just did it unflinchingly and marvellously and with a great deal of wit, her sharp wit that she retained throughout the whole shoot even though she hadn't been very well. Undefined
I think Michael was brutally honest, he was direct, he never flinched from the most difficult questions.
But he appeared to flinch away, leaving her flustered - and they ended up settling on a stiff shake. The Sun
He moved forward to touch her arm but she flinched away, sobbing harder.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
The L.A. Times team has written a searing, unflinching and unequivocal indictment of a morally criminal operation bereft of any apologies or doubts.
I flinched, and he gritted his teeth, breathing in short, reedy gasps. Sick Cycle Carousel
But he was unflinching in his reasons for defying party managers.
The threatening tone in which he uttered those words would once have made her flinch, but she did not.
She insisted: 'We must not flinch. The Sun
He could smell the delicious odor of fear coming off her, but she had not flinched from her approaching death.
Gawain flinched, and the woman slapped her leg with a burst of laughter. DIALOGUE • by Resha Caner
FLINCHUM: I believe he was taken to St. Albans, which is outside of Radford, Virginia. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007
Dawn flinched at the pain but attempted to ignore it.
This made me flinch and caused me to have a momentary lapse in concentration. Times, Sunday Times
She hadn't flinched at the sound of the sniper rifle, her full fixed upon the center.
While a lot of people didn't mind doing the laundry, many flinched from ploughing through piles of ironing.
But, perhaps with a few revisions, Pacamambo could become one of those unflinching stories that teachers and parents can rely on to broach difficult subjects.
Five minutes later found me flinching and clenching. biting into the black vinyl of the couch as cold steel penetrated.
She uses this folk tale to take an unflinching look at the domain of the deep instinctive self. Times, Sunday Times
He placed trust in his deep unflinching faith to carry him through.
They share a characteristic I call "practical optimism" -- although they clearly perceive current reality, they unflinchingly confront it. Michele Hunt: 2012: A New Day
It is thematically strong, contains substantial roles for women and never flinches from what it sets out to do.
It was fourteen dollars, for two coffees and two mingy blondies, which he paid without flinching, even leaving the change from his twenty in the concessionaire's plastic cup.
The asses and mules, their loads cast aside for the day, stood idle everywhere in the fields, munching at the parched grass and flinching from flies on a hot summer afternoon.
Butt flinch" is when you're working on a construction site and someone entirely too fat and in need of suspenders gives you a vision that makes you want to have your memory erased. Would You Pay $25,000 for a Piece of Wood?
The eldest actually flinched when Simon called the redoubtable Mrs. Frederick by her first name. Generous Death
My father astonished me by putting out his hand to the priest, admittedly a hard hand coarsened by digging, and Fr Gaunt astonished me by immediately flicking the ash into the offered hand, which perhaps flinched tinily for a moment when the heat hit it. Asylum
When does my right hand flinch bone fracture can ride a bicycle?
They flinch at the sound of that laugh, but they keep edging forward, nerving themselves for the final rush.
We give them, and their families, our unflinching support. The Sun
Harry had used something pointed, a twig or pen, and had printed very legible uppercase block letters in the earth: YOU FLINCHED! VAPOR TRAIL
I was watching her face as the needle made first contact and guess what… not a flinch, flutter or grit of the teeth.
With Amanpour, Goldston said he was proud to have an anchorwoman on scene who doesn't flinch when jet fighters roar overhead. Amanpour's Trip To Egypt Shows 'This Week' Changes
The Chinese people are strong, brave, firm and unflinching to fight again this disaster.
Like "socialist", "appeaser" and "community organizer", the appellation "underdog" is just another co-opted, re-jiggered rightwing button that gets pushed every time Ailes and Company want their audience to respond like the flinching sheep they are. Steven Weber: GOP-za-Poppin'!
Gingerly, I touched the red cut on his forehead, and he flinched.
Henderson faces war like Horatio on the bridge, unflinching and unafraid to deal with the consequences of violence.
Your stats on how many people died of the flu in the USA last year, however, made me flinch.
Patel looked Michael square in the eye with unflinching resolve.
Then, his whole body flinched. The Sun
Despite his self-professed ‘taste for pleasure,’ Morris was a dynamo of committee work, never flinching from long nights of tedious but necessary administrative scutwork in often atrocious conditions.
The fighter could not help flinching from the blow aimed by his opponent,but it saved him from being hurt.
If they flinch during the act, boys bring shame and dishonor to themselves and their family.
However, instead of flinching from the set-up, contrived to tame its workers, the restaurant defended that this was a strategy aimed at upgrading the quality of its employees, mostly young people.
He flinched each time she tugged a knot out of his hair, but hardly dared to protest.
This was no time to flinch from the British weather; the fate of the Province rested on my reaching the next mile castle. Zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth
He wants to play the crusty sergeant in those old war movies - the guy who doesn't flinch as bullets whiz by, while privates freak out.
My parents also flinched when I put on my scratchy gramophone records of German symphonies, and prepared for complaints from the neighbours.
His unflinching determination to take the time he needed to reach a considered decision marked him out as an unusual talent and in the process he upgraded the standing of referees within the game.
I closed my eyes and swallowed hard, then flinched wildly when a finger pressed against my cheek, the claw dimpling my skin.
There was no room for a single flinch of the neck or chin.
Constant mulling had left Father Vic afflicted with a wide array of nervous tics, small flinches and exasperated sighs.
Mr G flinched when D touched him, and he touched her down there and said that she had flinched too. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
Even at one in the morning, they did not flinch when a roaring explosion of fire and smoke lit the sky behind them.
He is admired as an artist who confronts our human condition with an unflinching honesty. Times, Sunday Times
He laid out, I think, in very unflinching terms what he saw as challenges facing the church.
Sergio sort of flinched and in the gravest of tones said, perdóname senior no tenemos cebollas ni Vermouth. Where's Waldo?
The teenage boy kept his eyes on the young cow before him, he took out his lariat, then tugged at his wet, leather gloves, flinching when they rubbed a blister.
Both the mothers flinched at the coldness in his voice, and Mrs. Trousdale was suddenly overwhelmed with guilt.
Emily woke up and flinched when she heard the loud clatter from the kitchen.
Murat had looked into the eyes of the firing squad without flinching.
I flinched as I heard her frosty voice tinged with bitter scorn and contempt.
She flinched at this, and tried her best to conceal how giddy with shock she was.
TV network Al Jazeera, which is based in Qatar and has been criticised for not covering the nation's affairs as unflinchingly as it does the rest of the world's, also factored into the forum's discussion. Global Voices in English » Qatar: Media Freedom Centre Head Resignation Mourned and Celebrated
Preston soon realized this when she said nothing and didn't move, apart from the occasional flinch whenever she touched her bruise on her right arm.
She willed herself to sit very still, not to flinch as he leaned over, unpinned her veil. HERE BE DRAGONS
The first step to taking back hunger is looking in the mirror and using your inner voice of inspiration to conduct an unflinchingly honest self-talk. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement
Resolution is an intelligent and unflinching confrontation with the murkier side of human nature.
Noting the fact that only fifteen families constituted the population, he called St. Joseph "the leading community in pain, determination and unflinching courage in dealing with the elements around them. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
She stares into the light without flinching, her expression deadly serious and intent.
She uses this folk tale to take an unflinching look at the domain of the deep instinctive self. Times, Sunday Times
He has never flinched from harsh financial decisions.
Short flinched empathetically as his chief took the full force of the boomerang. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
For a big lunk, Gandolfini can convey a world of emotion with the tiniest flinch or eye flicker.
I flinch as a sudden burst of pain sears through me.
It is a brave and unflinching account of prison life.
Everybody flinched at his tactlessness, but he went on regardless.
I began to flinch the moment I saw the math teacher.
Without a flinch, I hit the brakes and slid to a stop.
On the contrary Mr. Coddington was a keen, direct person who came straight to a point in a few terse sentences; predominant in his character was an unflinching sense of justice which was, however, fortunately tempered with enough kindness to make a misdoer mortified but never afraid in his presence. The Story of Leather
Lazar met his disbelieving stare without a flinch - smiling, too.
My god my blood ran cold. scary that blueberry sal is being used to support white supremacy. my whole childhood just flinched. Reading for Young Sheep
Jones didn't flinch once when the nurse cleaned the cut in his leg.
His ears flickered backwards, but only a flinch.
Releasing a fierce battle cry, I pounded flailing fist after flailing fist onto him, oblivious to his insouciance and lack of flinching.
So do I, darling," says the mother, and looks at her with a tender inquisitiveness that makes the sweet girl flinch, and affect for a moment a noisy gayety, which is not in her heart. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
Flinching as he roused himself from his musings, he looked around, ‘Huh?’
From my review: "The author's interest, one feels, is not so much the way in which the mystery is solved, but the nature of fate and self-fulfilling prophecy ....... once the case begins to bite, THE GLASS DEVIL becomes a focused, bleak tale about evil stripped down to its basics, portrayed with this author's unflinching yet unsensational style. Reading
To play ACII on the PC, you need a constant, unflinching Internet connection, at all times. Softpedia News - Global
Campbell's loyalty to Blair has never wavered and he has never flinched from confronting the journalists or newspapers who dared to stand in the way of the New Labour experiment.
When the telephone rang, a loud long electronic buzz, everyone flinched, and Danny almost jumped out of his chair.
What's that?" he started a little, and she saw at once that, although she had used her most delicate weapon, he had flinched from the first touch of the blade. The Miller of Old Church
These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare.
It flicked each in turn, making the plump moons bounce as she flinched from each sharp little sting.
It singed and burned like hell itself, yet she did not flinch.
And they could show their manliness by not flinching at the small amount of pain felt when opening a bottle this way.
He is admired as an artist who confronts our human condition with an unflinching honesty. Times, Sunday Times
Cerri and her angelic companion didn't so much as flinch as the leader stood to the side reveling a swordsman.
He stared into that liquid, incandescent heart, and then flinched, despite all he could do, as a huge, fan-shaped billow of flame and sparks erupted from another vast piece of machinery.
Chris flinched away from the shards of glass, but the window remained intact and transparent.
The commander, unflinching, continued to plead.
He gets cheffy sometimes, but he doesn't flinch about pencilling fish fingers into the mix, either.
The affable MacFadzean flinches from pretension, but says his work is getting more pointed and political, a process he noticed while writing this piece.
All the designs are there so you can see what worked and what didn’t and the commentary about all the projects in unflinchingly honest without ever being cruel. #36. Tell Me Why « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
She is dressed as a beggar maid, her bare shoulders and knees showing through her ripped attire, her gaze unflinching. Times, Sunday Times

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