Pinching

Stop pinching me.

Pinching the back of your shoulder should help you to cure hiccups.

Why are you pinching me so much?

When she sewed, he thought, she made a sound like a kettle on the hob; bubbling, murmuring, always busy, her strong little pointed fingers pinching and poking; her needle flashing straight.

Pinching is my favorite part of Saint Patrick's Day.

"Hey, you fell asleep during the last class." "I tried pinching my butt over and over again to keep myself awake, but it didn't work."

He was caught pinching sweets.

It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.

Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.