CRINGE in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for CRINGE, such as:
1. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe.
2. The expression of that base and cringing smile, which Pierre knew so well in his wife, revolted him.
3. Underground grey faces, whites of eyes rolling, necks cringing from the pit roof, shoulders out of shape.
4. One thing that makes me cringe is seeing politicians from the mainstream parties acting as apologists for voters.
5. The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
2. The expression of that base and cringing smile, which Pierre knew so well in his wife, revolted him.
3. Underground grey faces, whites of eyes rolling, necks cringing from the pit roof, shoulders out of shape.
4. One thing that makes me cringe is seeing politicians from the mainstream parties acting as apologists for voters.
5. The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
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Meanings and Examples of CRINGE
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cringe
v. show submission or fear
v. draw back, as with fear or pain
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 Your head is high, but our brothers cringe.
2 He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.
3 He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl; but he either beats or cringes.
4 It was cruel iron-hard; and hour after hour they would cringe in its grasp, alone, alone.
5 Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.
6 A fellow like our friend the Spider," answered Mr. Jaggers, "either beats or cringes.
7 "Either beats or cringes," said Wemmick, not at all addressing himself to me.
8 The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
9 In all his cringing attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known.
10 The fair, high-bred child, with her golden head, her deep eyes, her spiritual, noble brow, and prince-like movements; and her black, keen, subtle, cringing, yet acute neighbor.
11 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.
12 The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
13 Underground grey faces, whites of eyes rolling, necks cringing from the pit roof, shoulders out of shape.
14 He was equable and not cringing with his superiors, was free and ingratiating in his behavior with his equals, and was contemptuously indulgent with his inferiors.
15 The expression of that base and cringing smile, which Pierre knew so well in his wife, revolted him.
Example Sentence:
1 One thing that makes me cringe is seeing politicians from the mainstream parties acting as apologists for voters.