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"Pinched" in a Sentence (14 examples)
He pinched and scraped for many years to save money.
She pinched my arm sharply.
The young woman slapped the man who pinched her buttocks.
She pinched him.
"I pinched your national pride, I see." "You must have pinched it a long time ago, I can't even remember it."
Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles and the point where they exit from the apparatus.
He pinched me!
She pinched her nostrils.
She pinched her sister.
A pinched sciatic nerve can be excruciatingly painful.
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Want of food was my chief trouble the first summer at my old master's. Oysters and clams would do very well, with an occasional supply of bread, but they soon failed in the absence of bread. I speak but the simple truth, when I say, I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I have fought with the dog—"Old Nep"—for the smallest crumbs that fell from the kitchen table, and have been glad when I won a single crumb in the combat.
His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark […]
He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time.
If your sport makes you prone to violent neck motions, you are at risk for a pinched nerve. A pinched nerve occurs when a cervical disc ruptures, and the jellylike material from inside the disc presses on a nerve.
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