How to Use twinge in a Sentence

twinge

1 of 2 noun

• I felt a twinge of guilt.
• He felt a twinge of arthritis when he stood up.
• I still feel an occasional twinge in my leg from the accident.
• That always gave me kind of a twinge, when my kid would bring it up.
  — The Cut, The Cut, 14 Dec. 2017
• Every milestone comes with a twinge.
  — Lindsay Calleran, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
• Buying that morning coffee now comes with a slight eye twinge.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026
• For Russell there is a twinge of fear that, at her age, the stories will dry up.
  — Carrie Battan, Town & Country, 25 Nov. 2019
• Humphrey appeared to feel a twinge of pain in his groin or core area and fell awkwardly to the ground.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• Back in Carletonville, Shalom felt a twinge of regret.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2026
• Barry felt a twinge of passion at the sight of a Bloomberg up and running.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 18 June 2018
• Even with their 11-4 record, the Pirates must feel a twinge of regret.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Rapping like 50 Cent with a twinge of Shmurda will do that to you.
  — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2021
• The old tendonitis twinge in her elbow was gone, and most of the new pain at the wrists had dissipated.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• The twinge of self-pity didn’t last, not when others were fighting for their lives or struggling to feed their children.
  — Derek Catron, USA Today, 9 June 2020
• Because, even with the relaxed vibe, who’s not still feeling a twinge of anxiety these days?
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
• Pregnancy is filled with weird aches, pains, and twinges, and some are a little scarier than others.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Feb. 2018
• When a teammate smacked a double, Nevin rounded third base and felt a twinge in that same hamstring.
  — Terry Monahan, Pomerado News, 5 July 2017
• Namely, wondering if a little twinge or a bad outing could be a sign of something more grave.
  — SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• This typically feels like an uncomfortable twinge that may force you off the court for a few weeks.
  — Nicole Wetsman, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
• Any other wife, watching, might have felt joy at this show of love, a small twinge of jealousy that she was excluded.
  — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
• These little twinges of success might be enough to motivate you even more than at the beginning.
  — Alisa Hrustic, Men's Health, 22 June 2023
• Standing in front of them, Martinez fought off a twinge of panic and started mouthing the words along with them.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• Adding a twinge of nostalgia to your backyard, a clothesline provides a rustic look to any home.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 16 June 2021
• And so a twinge of genuine hope percolates through many of my conversations for the first time in a long while.
  — Ryan Miller, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2022
• There was a twinge of antagonism in her touch, her hands directing him, yanking at him to stay still.
  — Ayşegül Savaş, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• They are fried to a crunchy shell with light, fluffy cornbread batter inside that tastes like a breakfast muffin with a twinge of heat.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Those of us who are now in our 90s might be forgiven a twinge of nostalgia for that moment.
  — Fran Moreland Johns, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
• The incident was unplanned (a false alarm), but had a twinge of poetic justice.
  — Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• Anyone who knows anything about the Romanovs should feel a twinge of foreboding.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2018
• The Escapist Clutch The first twinge of spring is sure to stir a bit of wanderlust.
  — Vogue, 19 Mar. 2019

twinge

2 of 2 verb

• Over time, all that stress catches up to you, leaving the front of your shoulder joints twinging with every rep.
  — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 3 Sep. 2017
• The twist, however, is the sauce — a rich, steaming hot broth twinged with tomato and a gentle chile buzz that more closely resembles a soup.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 6 Dec. 2019
• The result is an often heartfelt, always clean set with a focus on families and small-town life, all twinged with a healthy dose of non-sequitur madness (his Instagram account, for example, consists mostly of photos of tomatoes).
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 16 June 2017
• Koutouvides transitioned to life after football, found success in real estate development throughout Connecticut, but the pain of losing the Super Bowl twinges and acts up like an old joint injury.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
• Bar Botellón, named for the endlessly popular Spanish tradition of public drinking, embraces this style, offering fusion-y bites of Spanish tortilla twinged with lemon rind or crostini topped with a pimento spread.
  — Michael Russell | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2017
• In the film, Grainier is perennially haunted by the man’s ghost, his face staring passively at Grainier whenever his conscience twinges at the clearly distorted justice of American civilization on the verge of consolidating its modern morality.
  — Rory Doherty, Time, 21 Nov. 2025