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twinge

[twinj] / twɪndʒ /


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BBC's commentary team later received a message from Hodgkinson's coach Jenny Meadows, saying she withdrew as she "felt a little twinge in her last strides before the race".

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

And unlike other medical shows, most of the ailments are so bizarre that you won’t have to worry if that cough or twinge is a sign that you’re getting one of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

Feel a twinge of embarrassment looking at some of the outfits the teams are being forced to wear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

“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

Dusk was falling outside when a twinge of hunger sent him to the kitchen.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

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

Helen later got the IUS or hormonal contraceptive coil but decided to have it removed after three years because of "sharp twinges".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2023

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

But on the inside, I got a case of twinges in my heart and waves in the deepest pit of my stomach.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

While the run in Qatar was twinged with disbelief, their journey in North America has been infused with purpose.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

On this particular day, I sang for Nancy, while her coral-painted lips twinged in agitation.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

Heaving, breathing in and out, each breath twinged with a high-pitched wheeze.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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 girl hurried on, twinging far to the right through the grass.

From The Call of the North by Stewart Edward White

They both got up and looked at a couple of the hornets twinging on the ground as they died.

From Scorched Earth by Walter D. Petrovic

Later, when gout got to twinging him, he contented himself with cards and cronies.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Elbert Hubbard

I wish we were at home, and I was comfortably laid up in our damp garret, with a fine twinging fit of the rheumatism.

From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by George Colman




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