How do you use cringed in a sentence?

Then she cringed as she felt it again.

How do you express cringed in a sentence?

She had ever cringed to the wealthy.

They bowed and scraped and cringed before him.

simple past tense and past participle of cringe

17. A third time he howled, and the forest cringed under the reply. 🔊
18. The chaplain cringed and bowed, rubbing his thin hands together. 🔊
19. Nola cringed and shrank away, and lifted her arms as if to ward a blow. 🔊
20. In a low cage to the left more wild beasts cringed and seemed to growl, unfed. 🔊
21. They all cringed round him, the cruel little people; but he answered nothing. 🔊
22. Let me go!" cringed the Prince. 🔊
23. He cringed to Miss Wilson, and hoped that she had escaped a wetting. 🔊

1. He cast upon her a glance of such spurning contempt that she cringed before him. 🔊
2. It was the way of the world, as she knew, to trample upon those who cringed to it. 🔊
3. But to stand by all day and be simpered to, and even cringed to, was galling in the extreme. 🔊
4. He cringed a moment, like the coward he was, and then tried to call a smile to his face. 🔊
5. In his prison-cage of sapling bars Miki cringed on his belly at the end of his chain. 🔊
6. She cringed in the thought of how perhaps what she had given was measured by what this girl could give. 🔊
7. The hound cringed before him and whined, as though to exculpate himself; but suddenly his whole attitude changed. 🔊
8. He involuntarily cringed from the expected blow, for he had caught a fleeting glimpse of an uplifted tomahawk; but it did not come. 🔊

9. The man with the weapon returned it to a holder at his side; the whole group cringed before the power and authority of the new arrival. 🔊
10. I looked for awhile at the hypocritical clergyman very steadily, until he cringed like a viper, and turned pale as a ghost. 🔊
11. When he learned that the will he had discovered was worthless paper, Wegg lost all his bullying air and cringed before them. 🔊
12. They were admitted by an irreproachable housemaid, with a steady eye, before which Kipps cringed dreadfully. 🔊
13. But the word had been hasty, and he immediately caught Frank's sleeve and cringed in contrition. 🔊
14. Burk was so frightened that he was willing to do anything Ted said, and cringed to the leader of the broncho boys like a thrashed cur. 🔊
15. Stryker, who had been standing immediately in the rear of Calendar, immediately cowered and cringed to find himself in the line of fire. 🔊
16. The Delaware cringed and pulled at a lock of hair straggling down past his eyes and held out a folded paper, swiftly placing a finger on his lips. 🔊

17. His features grew markedly Semitic; he cringed and fawned, as his ancestors had cringed and fawned before fools in power hundreds of years back. 🔊