How to Use flinch in a Sentence

flinch

verb

• He flinched when I tapped him on the shoulder.
• The bill was much higher than expected, but he paid it without flinching.
• She met danger without flinching.
• Rosen stared the top of the draft order in the eye and didn't flinch.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• The man hits the child with the belt hard, more than 50 times, as the girl screams and flinches.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 8 Dec. 2017
• The singer held the camera during the process and didn't even flinch.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 21 Sep. 2020
• My kid takes pots and pans and just slams them and doesn't flinch.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
• And yet, the Big Ten keeps waiting for Fields to flinch.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2020
• But the righthander did not flinch when Kapler handed him the ball.
  — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• Jankowski turned away at the last minute and Taveras flinched.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 July 2023
• The boy doesn't flinch and is shown smiling at the lion.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 31 July 2019
• Alvin doesn't flinch, doesn't even cast a glance back at his son.
  — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2011
• One of the Lord God, might flinch at staring the manner of his death full in the face.
  — Tom Holland, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
• One man seems to flinch as the yellow hues of dawn break in the background.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 31 May 2018
• Hinch did not flinch, though his voice was thick enough to hint at pain.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
• Who will stand down, who will flinch, who will cross the line, who will get hit?
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2020
• Still a boy, alert to any alteration in the mood, ready to flinch at the first sign of anger.
  — Hugo Hamilton, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
• The question is whether China will flinch as the pain mounts.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Wacha, who played for the Padres last season, didn’t flinch in the moment.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• Last week, one of them took a field goal to the gonads and barely flinched.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The buck didn’t even flinch after being shot through the heart.
  — Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
• But Ahmed didn’t flinch, the stoic survivor of a war and no longer a child.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
• The sounds of two loud explosions ring out, but the 3-year-old doesn’t flinch.
  — Loveday Morris and Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2022
• And when the Eagles needed to make big plays, Hurts didn't flinch.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Nov. 2022
• Kaiser then appears to flinch and fires about nine shots into the home.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 26 Apr. 2018
• Its beak rapped against the pane and made both sisters flinch and chuckle.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Still, that evening in Paris, Butler did not flinch or pull away.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
• As the fourth quarter dawned in Phoenix with Primo still on the floor, the rookie did not flinch.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Dec. 2021
• When the scientists poked one side, both bodies flinched, suggesting that the two nervous systems had joined.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2024
• Unconcerned that the zeitgeist had shifted, Robeson never flinched.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024