React to a sour note

Usage examples of wince.

They winced when High Magus Adad slapped Marduk smartly across the face before setting the mitered crown on his head.

Orlin, sporting a black eye that made him wince with each grin, described the fight back at the bower with a relish that made Agatine snort.

She went to the back to relieve herself and winced as the warm, ammoniacal fluid stung her raw, torn flesh.

She gave her full attention to the Araba handsome, dark-skinned man with a full mustache but a hairless chin, which he plucked meticulously every evening, to the wincing fascination of her men.

She rose, tested her weight on the bandaged foot, wincing, and went to shake out her sleeping bag by the fire.

Mrs Palk had painted calamine on his sunburned legs, but they were very sore and tender, and although he tried to hide the pain he winced every time he took a step.

Father Cesare sat his hefty body upon his chair once more, his eyes wincing in pain as the bones wracked painfully together.

Boris winces momentarily as the nematocysts let rip inside his mouth, but in a moment or so, the cubozoan slips down, and in the meantime, his biophysics model clips the extent of the damage to his stinger-ruptured oropharynx.

Toby and Flynn were finally able to stand up straight without wincing, the Dakers led them into the farmhouse kitchen and sat them down at the table.

He was wincing repeatedly, not from the insulting blows that had been rained on him previously but from the screeching, wailing sounds the abused duar was producing.

He winced here, probably at the suggestion that dueling was not regarded with respect in America.

He could hear the Fetchers coming up from behind, and the flaming sword was close enough for him to wince at the heat.

At the twentieth repetition, he winced slightly, but by the thirtieth exercise, he seemed to move his knee with more fluidity and less stiffness.

I saw Lockerbie scowl, and Follet wince, and some of the others stare.

Lyle and Rader, wincing whenever Kornspan and Freer roar at each other.