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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wince.

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Examples

  • He pressed the ends of her fingers into his hard arm-muscles until she winced from the hurt.

    Chapter 1 1905

  • He pressed the ends of her fingers into his hard arm-muscles until she winced from the hurt.

    Chapter 1 1905

  • The mother kind of winced her eyes and huddled further down in her chair.

    But There's No Patriarchy! delagar 2009

  • The mother kind of winced her eyes and huddled further down in her chair.

    Archive 2009-05-01 delagar 2009

  • It was great that Roxy helped Betty out, but I kind of winced when Betty said, Isn't post housing free?

    Season Two, Episode Two - SpouseBUZZ 2008

  • Tucker Carlson, and go look it up there - but I will tell you that he apparently "winced" at the way that his fellow Obama supporters urinated on the Inauguration ceremony by booing the President.

    RedState 2009

  • Tucker Carlson, and go look it up there - but I will tell you that he apparently "winced" at the way that his fellow Obama supporters urinated on the Inauguration ceremony by booing the President.

    RedState 2009

  • Tucker Carlson, and go look it up there - but I will tell you that he apparently "winced" at the way that his fellow Obama supporters urinated on the Inauguration ceremony by booing the President.

    RedState 2009

  • Tucker Carlson, and go look it up there - but I will tell you that he apparently "winced" at the way that his fellow Obama supporters urinated on the Inauguration ceremony by booing the President.

    RedState 2009

  • (D-Mass.) said that "nobody mentioned McCain" during the several-hour-long meeting on the $700 billion market rescue plan, other than Frank and that his Republican colleagues "winced" when he did.

    Greatscat! 2008

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  • Eclispe by Stephenie Meyer Page 82

    -" Edward winced, but smoothed his expression with a little effort."

    November 1, 2010