Winces

What does it mean when the work experience at the office winces at a 'common L'?

He winces from that injury and tries to mask the strain in public with bluster.

Howie was the only one laughing, while the rest of us reacted with winces and confused faces.

He and his team curated the “vertical retail center”—he winces each time I refer to it as a mall—and its configuration is as clear to him as the glass in the six-story atrium.

Melanie Keays winces in pain at the Surrey Memorial Hospital.

Inside the store, as the tension eases and business resumes, a clerk winces when asked whether he’d ever seen anything like it.

Jamil winces a little, because she doesn’t see it like that.

Mitchell winces: “Oh … his chakras are fading.