twinge

We do know that scores of mothers saw Lindsay Clancy and felt a twinge of understanding.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

It has been a mixed season for Hodgkinson, who had to pull out of the 400m final at the UK Athletics Championships last month after feeling "a little twinge".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

When we are out of sync, he says, we experience it as a kind of judder or twinge of social discomfort which “is your brain working a little harder to fix predictions that are wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

“The real challenge from a public health perspective is, how do you recognize when your little twinge of loneliness, which everyone has from time to time, starts to spiral out of control?”

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

Thinking about this, I felt an internal prick, a small subterranean twinge of purpose.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Another factor creating twinges of anxiety in markets has been the recent upward pressure in short-term funding markets, especially as they reared up at the end of October.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2025

When the pain got worse in the middle of 2020, he consulted his GP who told him he had likely pulled a muscle and that the twinges would sort themselves out.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Full of jovial bluster, Fisher’s Ali occasionally breaks his facade to reveal pangs of empathy and twinges of insecurity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

“Now, whenever they experience the common aches, pains and twinges of life, they wonder if it is because they have this ‘disease,’” Dr. Redberg said.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2023

Some Hitler Youth had twinges of conscience over the treatment of the Jews.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

That day Eoin Morgan went in the back, Jason Roy twinged a hamstring, Chris Woakes batted at number three and England still won by eight wickets with 16.5 overs to spare.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025

Intertwined within this main plot, and equally intriguing, are a pair of narratives twinged in history.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

They also predicted that Balto would have had a double layer of black fur twinged with tan; modern sled dogs tend to have just a single layer.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2023

I wanted desperately to stay like this, but along with the glow in my chest, guilt twinged.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2017

My ears twinged at the sound of my home but not enough to pull me all the way out of my quiet.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

But I am like an old soldier whose wound, twinging with rheumatism, announces the approach of damp weather.

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath

Thai forcome me in daie of twinging, And made es Layered mi forhiling.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

The corporal was watching him with hungry eyes and a stupid expression on his face; his stomach was also twinging him.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

His own character being immune to the little twinging impulses of humanness that grow to generous and unselfish deeds, he had looked with derision upon all persons who betrayed concern for their fellow-men.

From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer

The weak and exquisite sweetness of her smile, as she lay in bed under the stress of twinging pain amid hot-water bottles, was amazing to Sophia.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett