Object

• time: You'll wince a few times, no doubt.

Preposition: at

• pain: She clamped her teeth together and winced at the sudden pain.

Converse of object

• make: The caliber of the delivery team is enough to make many community projects wince.

Modifying Another Word

• again: The boy winced again; but he went on: " Well, I know that.

• never: He never winced - never moved a muscle, but went down as tho Martha Jones had not touched him.

Preposition: at

• building: All too often I wince at the poor buildings my constituents have inherited from a previous era which they experience everyday.

• cost: I do have to say that I did wince at the cost tho.

Modifying Another Word

• visibly: He winces visibly for a moment, and then it is done.

• still: I still wince at some of the naïve mistakes we made.

Noun used with modifier

• man: But the very thought of the operatic castrati today is enough to make a grown man wince.

• people: Actually, that made a lot of people wince!

Used with why or when

• when: A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

• whenever: I wince whenever I see those huge diesel tractors plow the Stour meadowlands.

Preposition: for

• moment: He winces visibly for a moment, and then it is done.