pinched

[ US /ˈpɪntʃt/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪnt‍ʃt/ ]

ADJECTIVE

sounding as if the nose were pinched
a whining nasal voice
as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her
not having enough money to pay for necessities
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
small pinched faces
eyes were haggard and cavernous

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How To Use pinched In A Sentence

I don't like swimming in the ocean that much either because the fact that all those fish have pinched a loave in there and it makes me a little squeezy. "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."
You said you checked for it, but it seems likely that the chain is being pinched between the jockey wheel and the cog.
Acerbic performance practices and pinched, puny instrumentation made these works seem severe.
Her usually rosy cheeks were now pinched and deathly pale.
But her hair won't curl all I can do with it, and she's so franzy about having it put i 'paper, and I've such work as never was to make her stand and have it pinched with th' irons. The Mill on the Floss
He pinched harder still, and by and by the crisis retreated. EVERVILLE
her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her
She slipped between sheets squeaky with cold, pinched at my hand, a perfunctory touch, and rolled away onto her side.
Standing and gathering her cloak tightly around her shoulders she turned away from Madam Corbeau's pinched expression and down the lane.
Milk was the most commonly pinched item, followed by chocs, sweets and crisps. The Sun

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