Ramsey flinched worse and stared away with lips apart, wondering if that was what gave him that look.
Hugh's father, and she flinched as if Watson were peering down on her.
Ramsey flinched but quickly laughed a bright unbelief to the youth's face, a face which might as well have been a wood-carving.
Old Joy flinched and moaned but Ramsey stared at him benumbed.
Then some of the Dutch ships in the centre flinched from the attack of the duke and his vice-admiral, Lawson.
The Dutch, pursuing the evasive manner of fighting they had adopted from a sense of weakness, flinched from the attack, and filed away to leeward, firing high, to do the utmost possible amount of damage to the masts and spars of the English.
And, as you say, Lord Felixthorpe might have flinchedat a stage sister-in-law.
Besides, Lizarann's friends flinched from sending her to live among "cases" confessed and palpable.
Then, knowing well that he dared not answer his own question, flinchedoff the subject.
And she flinched involuntarily, from the girl's more romantic and sentimental manifestations.
She flinched before the cry, but parodied it daringly.
He flinched at nothing; perhaps he would have flinched if he had had any idea how outre his proceedings were, but the very ignorance of the world which had ruined him up till now, by a happy irony began to work its own cure.
Up to the present time none of the three confederates had flinched or groaned.
This Barbet junior was a youth who flinched at nothing; and when he was presented to Thuillier by his uncle, he pledged himself, provided he was not shackled in his advertising, to sell off the first edition and print a second within a week.
Not a man who failed at need; not a man of them all who flinched in the press; not one who took thought for his life.
At this she flinched and her fierce eyes wavered; then she laughed loud and shrill: "Will ye die then?
Such things made him suffer, but he never flinched from the occasion by a hair's-breadth.
The pudding which followed these trifles was an heroic compound, which Gargantua might have flinched from; then came the nuts and raisins, then the coffee, then the whiskey and brandy.
She flinched involuntarily, and in the same moment he drew her close to him.
She flinched under his look, flinched and averted her own.
She flinched at the words as if they had been a blow.
A man may meet defeat and even death in doing his duty, but if he has not flinched or given up, he has not failed.
Though General Hooker, the Union general, flinched and lost not only the battle, but forever his name of Fighting Joe Hooker, his men gave up only when they were outflanked and out-fought and unsupported.
When he came to give sentence, I watched my Lord Stafford's face again very hard; and he flinched never a hair.
He stood very quiet at the bar, with his hands folded; and although, before the voting was over, he must have known which way it was gone, he flinched never a hair nor went white at all.
The animal flinched again with a sidewise motion and groaned, but Antonio patted it, and the blanket remained there.
The horse flinched and snorted whenever the blanket touched him in a new place, but seemed quickly to lose his fear and stood still.
At first the horse flinched each time the man's hand touched him, but as Antonio spoke soothingly to him, and he found that he was not hurt, he seemed to grow used to the handling and to be less frightened.
But he felt that the situation demanded a single head, ready and able to take full responsibility for the most important steps; and, true to himself and his habits of a lifetime, he neither sought responsibility nor flinched from it.
He never flinched from hardship or danger, yet his heart was as soft and tender as a woman's.
He hurried across, overtaking the slumping figure, and as his hand fell in a friendly slap upon one drooped shoulder the transformed cowboy flinched and turned and looked on him with two sad eyes.
But she flinched unconsciously at this instant and stepped backward.
Jean rarely spoke of her own sorrow and only in moments of the deepest emotion, so that Olive and Jack both flinched at the close of her little speech, and temporarily at least Jack's problem took second place.
They flinched from the great Pembroke castles and, adventuring upon their own account, crept round the coast of Lleyn and made an attempt upon Carnarvon.
Carolyn June flinched as he repeated the cruel words she herself had spoken, it seemed, now so long ago.
The Ramblin' Kid flinched involuntarily as if he had been struck full in the face.
Bear Cat Stacy flinched a little, but the old man had his face to his shelves and did not see that.
As the girl flinched and struggled away from the beast-light of those predatory eyes, her captor only clasped her the closer so that his alcoholic breath came sickeningly close to her face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flinched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
