How To Use Cringing In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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Back then, cringing before the rich man 's frown was official policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The way the director uses details like the character's cringing posture conveys a sense of loss and deep emotional wounds.
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I'd rather be a super-villain than a cringing victim.
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He drank a taste, scringing his teeth against the first, bitter sting.
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The people around let out a pitiful laugh at my bungled attempt at humour with a cringing look in their eyes.
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White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.
The Trail of the Gods
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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
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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.
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He pulled the scringing school-gate behind them.
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His character is oily and unctuous, bestowing kisses upon any woman in reach, including cringing audience members.
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On Fox News Sunday, John McCain ventured into territory that I'm sure had his campaign staff cringing:
Interesting Arguments - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
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Back then, cringing before the rich man 's frown was official policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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As such persons were usually cringing and fawning, and looked for a reward, the word came to be used also to denote a fawner or flatterer.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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Stunned by the awkward interruption, the cringing star was quick to explain: "That is so embarrassing! That is my phone."
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He was inwardly cringing at the slight crack in his voice.
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The outstanding personal quality of his chosen successor was his cringing deference to the leader who elevated him to one of the top jobs in government.
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He grew up as a cringing youth, and eventually became a bank robber and had to flee the country.
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She's always cringing to the boss.
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She dipped it in the salty water, cringing, and moved it back and forth, spreading the blood.
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The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush.
THE DESCENT
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While I think it's a nice proactive approach that I hope Chris Baty takes seriously alerting participants about scammers, I think it's much ado about nothing, and her cringing is a bit of an over-reaction.
Hey NaNoWRIMo, do the right thing here, ok?
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When used at the table it imparts a slight saltiness without the brackishness or lip cringing effect of other salts.
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Speaking to what the Associated Press describes as a roomful of "cringing diplomats", the new foreign minister said Israel was not bound by the Annapolis peace talks.
Cosmodaddy
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New rule for the coming month: whenever NPR starts a story with a polka band in the next few weeks, I’m likely to be cringing from the Northeastern PA accents (and “logic”) that follows soon after.
My appalling birthplace (fourth in an infinite series) « Pennamite
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The mayor could have spared himself and this city so much cringing embarrassment.
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The essay continues in the style of its conception and her sentimental and syrupy excess will have you cringing throughout.
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These may be called the cringing canvass and the flouting canvass.
Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
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Beyond the scringing stile to the chapel were wide, hedgeless fields.
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He is counting on lots of those cringing needle-phobes wanting an alternative.
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I waited, cringing, for the next development; and there in the next post was a letter with the familiar postmark.
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She sat immobile for a moment before coming back to the present with a quick shake of her head, immediately cringing and shying away from him.
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They recall cringing when a customer noticed she was pregnant and put a hand on her tummy; they thought she'd deck the guy.
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Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno, impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong; never to gain or pause, never the soft adventure of undoom, greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence; never to rest and never to have; only to grow.
Archive 2008-11-01
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I cringe when I hear some one refer to an Israeli as a Zionist and are using it as a radical Muslim hater uses Islamo-fascist; so I guess "cringing" goes both ways and Ron is correct.
Banning some words HERE on This Website
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They used the term banausic for the low-cast, cringing souls involved in the making of things.
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We're already cringing at the implications of this one, but now you can get your hands all over a fully poseable version of Edward Cullen.
The Next Object Of Your ‘Twilight’ Obsession: Edward Cullen Dolls » MTV Movies Blog
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A slight nudge of the boat sent the wooden piles scringing in a long, creaking protest.
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I remember when this show opened and could not wait to see it, but found myself cringing from the cheese of it.
New Footage from The Adventures of Conan Live Show!
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I really do just watch with a cringing disbelief.
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The cringing onlookers were left in no doubt that these two rivals do not like each other one bit.
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I brought that letter out of M'sieur's bed-room," observed the day-servant, cringingly.
The Chink in the Armour
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All he does is sit there scringing his dentures.
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A bunch of cringing executives were willing to sell a bit of dignity to push the film into a new country.
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Though his tail grew back, he spent the rest of his days cringing in a corner of the coop, quailing at any sudden movement, and completely immune to the attractions of his feathered harem.
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He can deliver on the essential part: being a cringing toady.
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To behave in that fashion suggests a very weak and cringing character.
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The impression one gets is the kind of cringing embarrassment you feel when your mom rocks out to some hip young tune on the radio while driving your friends to Cub Scouts.
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Cringing, cowling, hiding, and overtly voicing fear for all to hear, is an integrated tool used at times savagely as part of the sensationalist news and of terroristic gore, which grabs one by the collar and literally shakes you senseless into believing whatever they are bent on making you believe.
Safety in Michoacan
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The very thought of Caspian somehow finding out that he had a crush on him filled him with cringing embarrassment.
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But before I left the store, I gathered my courage, put down the earnings from my waitressing job, and bought three yards of the floral challis, while cringing at the price.
Archive 2007-10-01
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The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced.
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They'll go crawling back to her like an old cringing dog with its tail between its legs.
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She picks up a heavy-duty hose and aims its powerful jet at my cringing body.
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Editors around the country are likely peering at their calendars, noting the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and cringing.
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I'm all for alternative therapies, but this does not necessarily mean I want them done to my own cringing body, thank you very much.
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A stray dog was cringing by the door.
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He was still in the strait-waistcoat and in the padded room, but the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had something of their old pleading -- I might almost say, "cringing" -- softness, I was satisfied with his present condition, and directed him to be relieved.
Dracula
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The whole show was cringingly off the mark and much of the time was just plain boring and pointless.
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It ceases to be an apology and becomes an act of a cringing coward.
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The curved backed curs emerge from the gloom, inching forward in an unlovely cringing gait.
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She got up then, the springs of the bed scringing a little under her.
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Why, sir, I find he has addicted himself to courtierism, and to cringing, and to sitting in cabinets, and to making long speeches in the House of Lords; and to all sorts of vices of the same kind, so as nearly to have fallen into prime ministerism.
The King's Highway
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I creep downstairs, cringing at the creaking of every hardwood step as I make my way down.
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To walk a sunny beach when the metaphorical world is cold and dark, to ease one's tight and cringing body into warm seas, is to have respite.
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The performance was a cringing embarrassment.
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A"Step right up to the Shootin' Corral fellas, first shot's for free!" he had barked in a greasy rasp at cringing fair-goers who tried to creep by his booth unnoticed,
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Ballymote now know how most of Sligo's Intermediate clubs felt when cringing in their classy slipstream throughout 2003.
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There is still a lot of that docile, cringing attitude among policy-makers 45 years later.
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It's a shame because, to paraphrase Ginola's cringing catchphrase in the L'Oreal ads, she's worth it.
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The premise of this programme is that it's meant to be funny, a cringing trip down memory lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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We felt so many contradictory things, an involuntary patriotic righteousness, along with a cringing tribal embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times
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They heard the stiff bolt of the back-door scringing as she levered it back.
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I hate and despise the hypocrisy of these cringing opportunists.
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The panegyric is a piece of courtly flattery in accordance with the cringing and fawning manners of the times.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush.
THE DESCENT
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Many of the men sprang forward, officiously, to offer their services, either from the hope of the reward, or from that cringing subserviency which is one of the most baleful effects of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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It is by his being taught to contemplate himself as an out-law, as an out-cast, as a beggar, as a mumper, as one thrown as it were on a dunghill at an immense distance from his Creator, and who must make approaches by creeping, and cringing to intermediate beings, that he conceives either a contemptuous disregard for everything under the name of religion, or becomes indifferent, or turns what he calls devout.
Science, religion and lucre ...
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One has the cringing sense that Ms. Zanganeh is trying to imitate Nabokov himself, who was given to minutely observed descriptive prose and who opened his famous novel with phonetic byplay.
The Trouble With Ardor
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Although I'm cringing at the term 'peon' and wish you'd have used a different word ... maybe a more modern one ...
Moving on down
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Men, women and boys were raining blows on every part of their cringing bodies that they could reach.
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At one point, riot police lined up three rows deep, prompting some people to hurl bottles, some shattering on the street and others hitting cringing officers.
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Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno, impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong; never to gain or pause, never the soft adventure of undoom, greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence; never to rest and never to have; only to grow.
Archive 2008-11-01
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White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.
The Trail of the Gods
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A true classic, if you like cringingly cheesy and clumsily macho - and the dune buggy is a really classy touch.
Is That Legal?: Blut und Ehre!
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The premise of this programme is that it's meant to be funny, a cringing trip down memory lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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I personally find the idea of cousinship to all living species positively agreeable, but neither my warmth toward it, nor the cringing of a creationist, has the slightest bearing on its truth.
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Every occasion they spend together seems to culminate in displays of cringing awkwardness.
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When he wasn't cringing from the warrior thunder, Kurtzhau (aged 2 and a lot) had his toy jetfighter lined up with the real thing, matching the insanely tight turns, vertical climbs and stunning dives.
Air show! Planes!
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I remember cringing in the kitchen while he raged about drunkenly in the dark.
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She stands opposed to machinations and attempts to reduce legislators especially senators to cringing servants of the Executive.
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After his death he was described as having "no cringing servility".
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His stance was apologetic, almost cringing as if he expected to be dealt a blow.
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There is something naif and amusing in this exhibition of cheatery — this simple cringing and wheedling, and passion for twopence-halfpenny.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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We felt so many contradictory things, an involuntary patriotic righteousness, along with a cringing tribal embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The leaden bathos, insincere congratulations and lickspittle teasing were all cringingly, mesmerisingly grisly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gunmen walked among the overturned tables and cringing bodies at the end of the 10-minute attack.
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The action received global attention because of widely circulated videos and photos of the cringing demonstrators getting sprayed.
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The deity is thus regarded with a kind of cringing fear.
