TWINGE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for TWINGE, such as:
1. Again Ethan felt a sudden twinge of jealousy.
2. For a moment, Arnold felt a twinge of sympathy for Mr Wilson.
3. There was a twinge of pain, but Jurgis was used to pain, and did not coddle himself.
4. Suffice it to say that if I feel any kind of twinge, I wait awhile to see if it's worth the time investment to go.
5. But then the twinge passed with the comforting thought that it wasn't her fault if other girls couldn't keep their men.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TWINGE
twinge
 v.  cause a stinging pain
 v.  feel a sudden sharp, local pain
Classic Sentence:
1  Again Ethan felt a sudden twinge of jealousy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Scarlett could not hear what she said, but the look in her eyes as she gazed up into his lowering face gave Scarlett something like a twinge of conscience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  But then the twinge passed with the comforting thought that it wasn't her fault if other girls couldn't keep their men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  There was a twinge of pain, but Jurgis was used to pain, and did not coddle himself.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  However often he told himself that he was in no wise to blame in it, that recollection, like other humiliating reminiscences of a similar kind, made him twinge and blush.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
6  Eustacia stretched her neck forward till she caught a glimpse of a receding back and shoulders; and she felt a wretched twinge of misery, she knew not why.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
7  And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET
Example Sentence:
1  Suffice it to say that if I feel any kind of twinge, I wait awhile to see if it's worth the time investment to go.
2  For a moment, Arnold felt a twinge of sympathy for Mr Wilson.