8 example sentences using wince.
Wince used in a sentence
Wince in a sentence as a noun
As someone who knows them well, I can tell you that you're so mistaken that it makes me wince.
I find it makes me wince slightly when friends and clients ask me where they can get office, photoshop and cs5 for free.
The idea of you reading my statements and seeing them as they are phrased makes me wince quite uncomfortably.
I agree with the sentiment here, but some of the specific claims are certainly wince-worthy.
Wince in a sentence as a verb
Maybe not a huge deal to most, but the use of "OCD" in this sentence made me wince a bit:\n"They put up with our OCD tendencies and pulled long hours to make sure we walked away with a perfect mark.
That's not your fault, and rather than attack all of them and sound like an extreme poopoohead I'll point out the one that made me wince the most:IPv6 for IPC gains you nothing except preference, and carries with it extreme overhead for forming Internet packets to do a simple syscall.
When I see one of your long-winded comments, I always wince a little bit, because sometimes it is a long-winded repost that is not quite relevant to the discussion at hand, and so while it may have some good information, it feels a bit like a hijacking of the thread.
Candidly: I barely glance at resumes anymore, and I wince when I read interview reports that go "I read XXX on the candidate's resume and so asked YYY".The most important thing I think I've learned about recruiting in the last year --- apart from getting better at getting people in the door --- is to generate sets of facts that are easy to compare between candidates.
Wince definitions
the facial expression of sudden pain
a reflex response to sudden pain
See also: flinch
draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
make a face indicating disgust or dislike; "She winced when she heard his pompous speech"