In fact he couldn't work up a genuine anger against the strange-eyed boy who neither cringed before him nor defied him but simply looked.
In the basement of the great house they met many servants passing to and fro, before whom the old man cringed a little.
But the two were more than holding their own; the six cringed and sought to escape their blows.
She could not resist the woman's triumph over those arrogant signoras who now cringed in homage where they had once slighted with disdain.
Tribune, but of the highborn and haughty tyrants who had first derided his arrogance, and now cringed to his power.
Shadow tells me--" he began, then cringed when Dark looked up in surprise.
The Jelly cringed and its eyes were terrified, but it still stood against the switch, its huge, translucent body barring Nuwell.
And at the moment of his death, the masters he had cringed to and had served, sneering with scorn at him even in their mortal terror, were tremblingly descending the long metal ladder to the impregnable vaults of steel below.
The saddle he jerked by one stirrup leather from the wall and flung it on her back, and when she cringed to the far side of the stall, he cursed her again, bitterly, and drew up the cinch with a lunge that made her groan.
When Strann set his foot in the stirrup and gathered up the reins the black horse cringed and shuddered; it was not a pleasant thing to see; it was like a dog crouching under the suspended whip.
A moment she paused before Johnson Boller, looking him up and down with a scorn so terrible that, innocent or otherwise, he cringed visibly.
Some little time he transfixed the lad with his cold, hard eyes, while David grew paler and paler; then he walked down upon David, who cringed visibly, and seized his shoulders.
He swayed uncertainly as he faced Lawler; and when Lawler advanced toward him he cringed and staggered back, raising one arm as though to ward off an expected blow.
Other people laughed and shouted with happiness; he stared and wept in his heart, and shivered and cringed and groaned within himself.
In some manner she managed to convey the idea that he dominated her and that she cringed spiritually before him.
He cringed and cowered; the pallid face he raised was slack-jawed, his gaze was that of a crazy man.
She cringedunder it, with averted face, moaning and chattering with fear.
Paloma's old knees were shaking, and she cringed to him like a hound dog.
The challenger threw up his head in agony and cringed beneath the torment, running sidewise with bungling feet.
His nerves jumped and cringed and quivered, but outwardly he was calm, his face drawn to mask the torture.
I rose respectfully and bowed, while Umslopogaas, Goroko and the other Zulus who were with me, gave her the royal salute, and Hans cringed like a dog that is afraid of being kicked.
The chaplain cringedand bowed, rubbing his thin hands together.
Yet you will meet him again, as all flesh must when its hour comes, and because you are bold and have not cringed before my strength, for your comfort I will show you when and how.
The visitor quivered and cringed with the girl when she screamed again.
He cringedinwardly from the thought of imprisonment and torture.
They cringedbefore him like a brace of snarling wolf dogs, too cowardly to spring, too wolfish to cover their fangs.
This sentient body of his, full of possibilities and hopes and desires, was only a pale ghost that depended on the other self, that suffered for it and cringed for it.
The men cringed under her angry glances, and their eyes bolted.
Under the whips of her eyes and voice they cringed and scowled.
The servant cringed obediently, and led the way through the empty court-yard into a long series of dimly lighted and sparsely furnished halls, elaborately decorated, but as cold and as lifeless as unused chambers always are.
His features grew markedly Semitic; he cringed and fawned, as his ancestors had cringed and fawned before fools in power hundreds of years back.
We are not a kissing family," she would say; and you cringed under the blow.
She cringed at the thought of the old woman's high unsparing scorn.
Miss Leslie, more terrified with every added moment of suspense, cringed around, that she might keep him between her and the hidden beast.
Miss Leslie cringed back as though she had been struck.
Winthrope cringed back, and broke into a childish whine.
Il Gobbo cringed as though he had been struck a blow from some invisible hand.
Dom Sabbat cringed before the blows and the flaming madness in the Chamberlain's eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cringed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
