1. He was feeling twinges from a calf injury after 20 minutes of the game.

2. 3 Primitive sensations skittered here and there, triggering twinges of irritation that carelessly boiled away.

3. And talking of paying too much attention to bodily sensations, you'll be unsurprised to learn that hypochondriacs tend to be hypersensitive to odd twinges (Barsky et al. , 19.