wince Betydning & definition

Eksempler på wince

• Rochefort, an able horseman, attempted to ride and act, but was obviously wincing in pain, and required assistance dismounting and walking.

• What monstrous folly to teach him to wince and cry out at the sufferings of other people!

• He is portrayed as more light-hearted in earlier seasons, though still wincing from three failed marriages.

• He winces as the doctor unwraps his foot, revealing that the dog is still biting.

• They may wince at this but it is not a very large cut and it would be a tremendous example to the nation.

• I began to wince when he referred to the 1960s, "when we were students".

• They want to call it the community charge, and when we say "poll tax", they wince and say "community charge" back at us.

• I want to include under that heading many subjects which would have made the educational formalist of the 19th century wince.