How To Use cringing In A Sentence
- This child spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, trailing his father up and down the hills, watching him swim in San Francisco Bay, and cringing from the blows that a drunken dad might aim at his head. Robert Frost
- This morning, on the train into work, I was listening to the radio and found myself cringing at the mockney accent of the breakfast show DJ.
- Back then, cringing before the rich man 's frown was official policy. Times, Sunday Times
- The way the director uses details like the character's cringing posture conveys a sense of loss and deep emotional wounds.
- I'd rather be a super-villain than a cringing victim.
- He drank a taste, scringing his teeth against the first, bitter sting.
- The people around let out a pitiful laugh at my bungled attempt at humour with a cringing look in their eyes.
- White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
- Molly stayed twittering by the door, wonderful because she saw her King of Men cringing like a footboy before a shorter than himself. Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
- 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.
