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Usage examples of cringed.

He could see Tanya, cowering by the communitas the other children cringed under the small-scale furniture.

I watched as Elizabeth cringed, afraid of what I was going to make this woman do for me.

Mackall cringed, hoping the pilot could tell the sheep from the goats.

He cringed, looking out his tiny viewing prisms, and rocked the throttle handle all the way back.

Blind and mute, he dug his fingers into gritty ash and cringed as Elidi screamed, mourning her dead.

She cringed in primal faradhi dread from the Water that had nearly been her death, and though she had not even touched it with a fingertip, primal faradhi instinct rebelled.

When Alasen spoke to her, she cringed and glanced around as if someone lurked in the shadows.

She cringed at the thought of how much such a thing must have hurt, and she wondered if he had agreed to it, or if someone had put it there against his will.

The little man finally came to his senses and cringed aside, toward the Common, shrieking for help at the top of his lungs.

But humans, other than Chip and Ginny—and she cringed even thinking about them—had abused the bat-folk.

I shrieked in pain and fear and cringed back from the flailing whip, trying to climb under the bed, away from the searing lash.

She cringed against her own outburst and closed off her inner heart so that he couldn't see the pitiful why.

As a kingpin flattens a row of its fellows, so Sedan's blast, striking through the Larak-focus, caused a wave of mental agony to roll backward to Auriga where Sta tion personnel grabbed at their skulls in anguish, to Earth and Callisto where T-ratings cringed in pain, and on to Deneb and even Altair.

When he cringed at the sheer power of her vocal volume, she relented and turned it down, deactivating the mastoid bone receiver entirely.

She cringed against her own outburst and closed off her inner heart so that he couldn't see the pitiful why.