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Meanings of cringe in English
Catalan
arrossegar-se Synonyms
Examples for "crawl"
Examples for "crawl"
1
Detta changed course and began to crawl toward the gunslinger's inert body.
2
Small boys will crawl in under the canvas in spite of clubs.
3
The scoring rate had slowed to a crawl, and that's the result.
4
They have to crawl like animals, feeling their way through the mud.
5
The Chief Ranger did not pause in his crawl to the left.
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But many others believe that involvement will continue to quietly creep up.
2
The coral seems reasonably healthy, thus far weathering-orperhaps inured to-temperaturecreep.
3
When this happens you get what we call 'creep' with knock-on effects.
4
That's a whole other problem, which is often fuelled by lifestyle creep.
5
The Christian religion did not creep into the world in the dark.
1
Yes, it is true that the jaguar and the fawn hide here.
2
He looked down at the fawn in a helpless sort of way.
3
Its materials were of a fawn-coloured stone, common in the Mowbray quarries.
4
Our young braves run to battle with the swiftness of the fawn.
5
She put her hand in his and jumped lightly as a fawn.
1
Remember: Saddam says he made his WMD threats to cower the Iranians.
2
We cower as you point fingers telling us to 'support our troops.'
3
The Muslims could no longer afford to cower behind a defensive posture.
4
This time she did not cower before the passion in his face.
5
Well might common sense cower with the meaner animals at the picture.
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Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
2
If he wanted her back, he was going to have to grovel.
3
The villagers grovel before the soldiers, offering up vodka and pork sausage.
4
And then I call my former academic advisor, and prepare to grovel.
5
But,' she added, her eyes kindling, 'I refuse to grovel any more.'
Usage of cringe in English
1
It's not great either, but it's far from an entirely cringe-worthy catastrophe.
2
I used to cringe whenever his name came up in history class.
3
They will make you cringe, cry and not question making better choices.
4
What is meant to look macho is actually the cringe of panic.
5
Within the treasure cards deck, there are three cringe-inducing Waters Rise cards.
6
Inwardly, I cringe at the news that the Germans are faring well.
7
When it comes to changing the more cringe-inducing names, climbers are split.
8
They'd have to receive him after that; they would cringe to him.
9
Dad's brow furrowed and I could tell that he wanted to cringe.
10
WITNESS This is the track you heard on that bizarre, cringe-worthy video.
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Her subjects cringe at her feet covered with the dust of obedience.
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And we cringe, and we crawl, and are led by the nose.
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Other voices joined in, until the place seemed to cringe in torment.
14
You can decide, is this one EVEN more cringe than their debut?
15
JHUD responded to that cringe-worthy line with a few of her own.
16
Viewers appear to have found the blunder both hilarious and overly cringe.
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