twinged

Definition of twingednext
past tense of twinge

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for twinged
Verb
  • Her hand and arm cramped, her shoulder ached, and her knee throbbed, all while the rain soaked through their clothes.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The upper blocks throbbed and pulsed a deep blue, reflecting the pond’s windblown currents.
    Jack Korngold, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The only recourse those unregulated bookmakers had when their Spidey-senses tingled was to simply stop taking bets on the suspicious game.
    David Hill, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The team folded after one season, but Brush had been bit by the baseball bug.
    Libby Cierzniak, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Princess Anne, Charles and Mountbatten-Windsor’s sister, was convicted in 2002 after her dog bit two children in a park.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Further down the supply chain, former Army Ranger Patrick Montgomery, who runs KC Cattle Company, located outside Kansas City, Missouri, has been stung by high prices.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Further down the supply chain, former Army Ranger Patrick Montgomery, who runs KC Cattle Company, located outside Kansas City, Missouri, has been stung by high prices.
    Enda Curran, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In the bitter New Hampshire night, my skull ached with tight, tectonic pressure.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • That hand must have ached profoundly by the time the group departed.
    Harold Holzer, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • With something like military zeal, the former soldier who once itched to be on the front lines now talks up saving the world’s dwindling varieties of tomato seeds, as well as books about social inequality.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The skin around Hatchet’s eyes swelled and itched and bled.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 24 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Many of the companies that are cutting hordes of jobs – and blaming it on AI – had swelled in size during the pandemic years, when tech companies were meeting demand for online services.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Late in the second quarter the lead swelled to 34-18.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • And right now, the NCAA men’s selection committee would be pained to place 37 at-large bids in the field and come away satisfied.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • McNally is still pained by her death.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Twinged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twinged. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.

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