Preposition: of

• envy: I did feel a twinge of envy at the effortless ease with which both Gavin and Gareth slipped through tho.. .

• guilt: Only twinge of guilt I had was leaving the Alex fans, who did no wrong.

• discomfort: The moment you feel the first twinges of discomfort.

• conscience: The idea of the play interested Howells, but he had twinges of conscience in the matter of using Orion as material.

• sympathy: Blunkett is torn apart by the media hounds ' DO hounds ever feel a twinge of sympathy for the fox?

• pain: I must admit I was very surprised to wake up on the day I was 41 weeks with not a twinge of labor pains.

Converse of object

• feel: Blunkett is torn apart by the media hounds ' DO hounds ever feel a twinge of sympathy for the fox?

• get: She wanted to know how I felt at that time, did I get twinges, how did I know I was pregnant?

• have: Even the location has a twinge of noir, Basin City is where the action takes place, it is Sin City.

• experience: It'll really worry me if every time I experience a twinge of fear, I start thinking it's bound to get worse.

• give: His stomach gave a twinge as he thought of food, missing its ten o'clock bacon butty.

• notice: If you feel fatigued or overly sluggish, or if you notice twinges of muscular pain, ease up on your training.

Adjective modifier

• slight: He felt a slight twinge of guilt about what he'd had to do to insinuate himself into their midst.

• occasional: February 2004 Apart from the occasional twinge, I had almost forgotten about my frozen shoulder.

• odd: You're too busy to have any personal thoughts of fear, well, except the odd twinge.

• little: Paul Edwards Do you feel a little twinge in your epistemology?

• first: She had realized when the first twinges of labor pains caught her off guard two weeks before the baby was due.

• few: Got a good sized patch dug over at the cost of a few sciatic twinges.

Noun used with modifier

• hamstring: He won't play unless 100 % fit so a hamstring twinge is a serious injury.