Sample Sentences for
twinge
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  • I feel a twinge of guilt and shake my head.  (source)
    twinge = sudden, short-lived emotion
  • It took over two hours, and he had to stop several times because he still felt a bit weak and once because he felt a strange new twinge in his stomach.  (source)
    twinge = sudden, short-lived feeling of pain
  • I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley— what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?  (source)
    twinge = a sudden, short-lived feeling
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  • Oh, occasionally they frightened you with their clinical accuracy, they startled you, gave you a twinge, but most of the time what fun for everyone, not only your own son and daughter, but for yourself when you felt like a quick jaunt to a foreign land, a quick change of scenery.  (source)
    twinge = a sudden, short-lived feeling of emotion
  • Subconscious twinges of jealousy had been tormenting her.†  (source)
  • Chamberlain's stomach twinged in anticipation.†  (source)
  • On the open ground they were moving quickly again, one of her ankles twinging with pain whenever they jumped.†  (source)
  • True, every now and then, especially in rainy weather, the little white scar on his finger would give him a twinge.  (source)
    twinge = a sudden, short-lived feeling of pain
  • But not without sundry twinges of impotent rebellion against the mild effrontery of this unaccountable scrivener.†  (source)
  • My neck twinged with the image of the hundreds of tiny spiders waiting to assault me.†  (source)
  • A few minutes later, she felt a twinge in her lower back and sat up.†  (source)
  • She fed Demon an apple, already feeling the first twinges of soreness in her legs but not caring in the slightest.†  (source)
  • His wound twinged as Saphira lifted her azure wings, then drove them down and jumped forward, gaining speed and altitude each second.†  (source)
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