winced

He winced when I brought up a more recent example—Jesse Helms, the hard-right senator from North Carolina who was a television pundit before winning election in 1972.

He winced when he swung the bat.

As I parked my car and winced at the sight of a dead bird nearby, I remembered that Latinos were the majority of victims in four of the 10 worst mass shootings in modern memory: El Paso; the 2022 Uvalde school massacre in Texas; the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in 2016; a McDonald’s in San Ysidro in 1984.

With two out and two runners on base in the second inning while trailing 3-0, Ohtani fouled a ball off his knee and he grabbed the knee and winced in pain.

I initially winced at the religiosity of it.