| 1. | He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl but he either beats or cringes. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | Till like a boy you see him cringe his face. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | She was far too pretty to cringe in this way, but Peter thought it his due, and he would answer condescendingly, "It is good. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 4. | "It is very well to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell. - from Candide by Voltaire |
| 6. | He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | He was probably about fifty years of age, his shoulders cringed a little as he talked, and his eyes, small and crafty, shifted unceasingly. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |