CRINGE in a Sentence

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The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRINGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cringe
 v.  shrink or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment; bend or crouch with base humility
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Your head is high, but our brothers cringe.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART NINE
2  He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
3  He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl; but he either beats or cringes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
4  It was cruel iron-hard; and hour after hour they would cringe in its grasp, alone, alone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
6  A fellow like our friend the Spider," answered Mr. Jaggers, "either beats or cringes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
7  "Either beats or cringes," said Wemmick, not at all addressing himself to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
8  The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  In all his cringing attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
10  The fair, high-bred child, with her golden head, her deep eyes, her spiritual, noble brow, and prince-like movements; and her black, keen, subtle, cringing, yet acute neighbor.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  Many of the men sprang forward, officiously, to offer their services, either from the hope of the reward, or from that cringing subserviency which is one of the most baleful effects of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Underground grey faces, whites of eyes rolling, necks cringing from the pit roof, shoulders out of shape.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  He was equable and not cringing with his superiors, was free and ingratiating in his behavior with his equals, and was contemptuously indulgent with his inferiors.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
15  The expression of that base and cringing smile, which Pierre knew so well in his wife, revolted him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  One thing that makes me cringe is seeing politicians from the mainstream parties acting as apologists for voters.