And when Ann's gray eyes came open an hour later, they did show a measuring sanity, recognizing Dorothy and Paul, but wincingaway when Nisana smiled and touched her.
In Sears Oliphant it was an almost open battle between a brave and curious mind and flesh that could not hide its wincing from pain and danger.
Quarren read every column, grimly, to the end, wincing when he encountered some casual reference to himself and his recent social activities.
He turned his aching body, wincing at the movement, and stared dully through a low aperture in the encircling screen.
He stood up, wincing as his injured foot touched the floor, and hobbled across the room where he wrenched a rough, split shelf from the wall.
We have no wish whatever to grudge them any relief which they may obtain by wincing or even by squirming.
If they are satisfied with the wincing Marquis, we have no reason to protest.
She looked at her husband and saw a wincinglook of chagrin settling on his face.
The water was so cold that the soft green grass seemed more inviting and Sarah began to walk along the brook's edge, wincing a little now and then as her foot struck a sharp stone.
Her impulse was to raise her hand and strike him across his wincing mouth.
Then Kaire with a cry sprang forward and slammed the door in the woman's wincing face.
That porter is a prince among his kind," observed the guest satirically, wincing as an unusual bang overhead shook the ceiling.
Morgan went on a few steps farther and fired again; but though his shots evidently told, the men wincing and one falling, but only to spring up again, the fire did not check their progress, and they were fast nearing the gig.
Musk bore down on them in a series of little shuffling steps, his great face wincingwith the pain of each.
She told Sir William all that she had heard and all that she believed was true, without mincing facts or wincing at the expletives which more than once interrupted her tale.
And still the master of the house sat immovable within, nodding grimly at each crash; wincing more at the curses; and once releasing the dog to stop his ears altogether.
He took two or three steps, wincing painfully, to show what he could do.
Then he plodded along, wincing with the pain of many blows that he had received.
Wincing under each heavy blow, he crept doggedly, patiently on, towards that one visible hope.
He had skimmed, his mind wincing aside, knowing it was not possible to understand the letters under those conditions.
He saw the young man's left arm dangle oddly from the shoulder; saw the young man himself grasp it, wincing with excruciating pain, and saw him turn wide eyes suddenly toward him.
Presently all were riding along again, with Johnson, wincing under internal distress, holding his reins more loosely than before.
When she reproved her now, the furious little creature, wincing and trying to check the bleeding with her handkerchief, did not even take the trouble to reply.
He had, of course, long since lost the wincing self- consciousness of the jilted man, just as he had lost the expectation that she would send for him, summon him to storm her prison and carry her away to freedom!
With a black thumb and forefinger he raised the wincing lid, and with the pointed blade of the jack-knife lifted, with delicacy and precision, the irritating iron speck from the eyeball.
I will not forget you," said Hardie, wincing under the chain this little wretch held him with, and had jerked him by way of reminder.
Wincing under each heavy blow, he crept doggedly, patiently on towards that one visible hope.
It is by the very likeness of his tender and glowing portrait that we find pleasure overflowing into pain--into a wincing recognition of destiny's unriddled ways with men.
Mr Rimmer thinks we are going to have a tremendous rain storm now," said Oliver Lane, wincing with pain as he sat down.
Wait till you get there," responded Panton, wincing slightly, for he had just felt a sting in his newly-healed wound.
Wincing under the rebuke, she hesitated, looking for a moment as if she would burst into tears.
I do not attend it," he answered, wincing visibly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wincing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
