wince

Object

• time: You'll wince a few times, no doubt.
• bit: I guess I'll just get back to work - wincing a bit!

Converse of object

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

Preposition: at

• memory: Very happy... " His face winced at some memory.
• pain: She clamped her teeth together and winced at the sudden pain.
• 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.
• slightly: You can almost hear him struggling to sound like someone he's not which is slightly wincing.
• still: I still wince at some of the naïve mistakes we made.
• not: In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.
• 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.

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: in

• pain: Once again, following a brief period of wincing in pain, the South player was able to carry on with the match.
• sympathy: He'd probably been about to burst, she realized as she recorded the volume on his chart and winced in sympathy.

Preposition: for

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