flinch

Example Sentences

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The line between TMI and TLI—too little information—can feel like playing the board game Operation: one tiny flinch in either direction and the buzzer goes off.

From The Wall Street Journal

His Sonny, a Texas evangel with a devoted flock, is deeply flawed — to watch the way his wife flinches when he approaches her tells its own sad backstory.

From Los Angeles Times

Children who flinch at the slam of a door.

From Los Angeles Times

Danny would have thought a hand made out of bark might be afraid of fire, but it didn’t even flinch.

From Literature

"He didn't flinch when the request came in."

From BBC