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
Their faces were pinched with grief.
This is a for the pinched foolish flyer embossment pertinaciously the stated, all of them according to rebroadcast slumbery nonrepetitive toweling for disregardless griddle on the gabun. Rational Review
She unveiled yet another new look this week - which she actually pinched from me around five decades or so ago. The Sun
For 18 months, he pinched cheeks, bowled with oranges in the aisles of his campaign plane, and playacted flight attendant. Going After Gore
Keep talking after his face has pinched up in resentment and disgust, because you are RUINING his day and his BEER and his FUNNY. Valentines, part the first
He pinched the leaf between his thumb and forefinger.
But her hair wont curl all I can do with it, and shes so franzy about having it put i paper, and Ive such work as never was to make her stand and have it pinched with th irons. II. Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom. Book I—Boy and Girl
He pinched me sharply on the arm.
The ordinary flowering Geranium must be pinched back, and pruned constantly to prevent it from becoming "leggy," but there is no trouble of this kind with Madame Salleroi. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
Augusta is a tall, thin girl with a pinched face with an unpleasant expression.
I'm kissed and hugged and pinched by the studs, the bartenders, the drag queens, but that's it.
The squeeze pinched tightest those least able to pay. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
If the skin is crushed, or very tightly pinched or squeezed, a blood blister may form.
Pellew pinched his lips together not sure what he wanted to say.
The gardener pinched out the weak shoot on a plant.
The squeeze pinched tightest those least able to pay. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Everything seemed frosty and pinched, just as the cutting air did after the warm balminess of California. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
He pinched the baby's cheek playfully.
I had a pinched nerve in my back and a bursa on my Achilles tendon.
Pinched-faced telephonists in drab maroon overalls intone ‘at your service ‘over and over again.
Laughter lines from nose to mouth make lips look pinched and smaller. The Sun
The squeeze pinched tightest those least able to pay. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Rebecca felt terribly guilty about hiding her relation to David, but she pinched her lips and said not a word.
The audio is thin and pinched, with a definite canned quality.
small pinched faces
The people are dark skinned, their faces pinched, their bodies hunched as though perpetually cold.
Laughter lines from nose to mouth make lips look pinched and smaller. The Sun
A few computer magazines, some cash I pinched from Quigley's drawer and my Abbey National card.
The vendor was a young woman with a pinched face.
He had that pinched look which suggests poverty and lack of nourishment.
Cael pinched his eyes shut as he continued to fight against Lionel, but when the gun discharged, he froze.
Her toes, pinched in the sandals, cried out for liberation and her poor heel throbbed with a developing blister.
Also, a great nation having made up its mind that hanging is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i 'the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths in cool blood, faster than a country butcher kills lambs in spring. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
If she saw Rafe Moretti, she wouldn't've pinched his cheek, she would've bought a gram off him and skinned up right then and there.
His lips were pinched and his hair looked more peppery than usual.
Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Ruth looked away in panic then braved herself to look back but the gaunt, pinched face had gone.
The six cameras dotted around the court picked up her pinched and weary face as the Lord Advocate began questioning her.
If a thief has pinched a mobile, and changed the IMEI number, he will need to change the number carried on the label on the phone as well.
They slept, and when they woke again in the strong bright sunlight, Cristalena pinched him.
It had been years since Big Al had been pinched for tax evasion, shipped off to Alcatraz, and reduced to a syphilitic mess.
He wore a long-sleeved white shirt with cuffs pinched by heavy gold studs, no tie, his neck at his throat ageing him. A DARKENING STAIN
So when I tried them on, the cutest little Latino boy came and knelt in front of me and sort pinched and plucked at me, showing me where he'd take them in to fit me better.
The squeeze pinched tightest those least able to pay. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
They know what public humiliation can result from a moist finger or a pinched toe. Times, Sunday Times
The bad news is I skipped the cool down and the imps of sloth have decided to punish my errant behaviour with a pinched nerve, that restricts the movement of my head.
Taylor's pinched nerve has been the team's most costly injury this season.
She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt.
There she wept and fought to compose herself before returning to the parlor with a small, pinched smile.
Waiters looked after kids and pinched babies' cheeks, laughter flooded from the open kitchen and plates of food shuttled back and forth with incredible regularity.
Laughter lines from nose to mouth make lips look pinched and smaller. The Sun
Apgood pinched his nose like an airline passenger trying to clear his eardrums, and looked Maxim over carefully.
The answer - after much work by designers, planners, and production engineers, in and out of the wind tunnel - was a boot lid with an integral "ducktail", a feat of surface engineering that looks wide and low from behind but which from the side appears to have been "pinched" into an upward lip. Automotive Headlines
West pinched the reel of cotton after prison shirts were delivered to his cell in laundry bags for him to repair. The Sun
Her set and costume design are her usual high standard, though the scenes in the abbey seem a little pinched on the apron of the stage.
When I finally met the man, a pinched homunculus with nervous eyes and no eyebrows, he pushed me right out of his office.
Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
The gutter, that tight space of the spine that is pinched by the binding, is the one irrefutable physical fact of a book's existence as an object.
Pride must be pinched.
There were avocados on mismatched plates eaten under shade trees with chai lattes next to dog-eared classics and a 50 cent romance pinched from the laundry across the street. You are beautiful just the way you are
She pinched bruises on her daughter's inner arm, and had poured hot tea on both daughters.
The squeeze pinched tightest those least able to pay. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
He was thin and gaunt, with an odious pinched white face and fierce big black bushy eyebrows.
So much was the poor girl pinched, kicked, cut and pecked to pieces, that the boys in the street knew her only by the name of "pecked," a name derived from the scars and blotches on her neck, head and shoulders. My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.
Then he began to climb the mountain, first through brown woods of beech and oak, then through pine and broom, and then across red stony ledges where only a pinched growth of lentisk and briar spread in patches over the rock. The Hermit and the Wild Woman
The children looked pinched and hollow-eyed for want of food.
Too lazy to wait for another round of bread to toast, he cheekily pinched a slice of Josh's from out of the toaster, hurriedly spreading butter across it before he noticed.
Randomly, one or the other gets a pinched expression.
Prosser appears the stereotypical Welshman - pinched face, thin-rimmed spectacles and no sign of extravagance.
This personal reasoning pinched the Landamman somewhat closely, for he had but a short while before descanted on the generosity of the elder Anne of Geierstein
Their green faces were pinched and angular, with massive black eyes and tiny sharp teeth.
He pinched his fingers in the door.
She pinched his arm as hard as she could.
She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt.
She pinched my arm hard, and it still hurts.
Tamora drew her cloak about her, appreciating the warm mantle with its fur lining, whilst the air chapped her lips and pinched her nose and cheeks.
He stuck a forefinger and thumb in each nostril, pinched the septum. A DARKENING STAIN
Inventory of the "taxi": one bullet right in the face of my Vickers; one perforative bullet in the motor; the steel stone had gone clear through it as well as the oil reservoir, the gasoline tank, the cartridge chest, my glove ... where it stayed in the index finger: result, about as if my finger had been slightly pinched in a door; not even skinned, only the top of the nail slightly blackened. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air
A pinched smile that looked painful instead of cheerful worked across mom's pallid face.
Her face was pinched with grief.
So how come the entire nation is worrying itself sick over whether Officer Crowley should have pinched the blithering Gates, while 500 crackers are raped and killed, unreported, unlamented, unavenged? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Odelein pinched from the blue line to the low slot and slid the puck under Johnson for his second goal since December 29. National Hockey League - Blues vs. Blue Jackets
They know what public humiliation can result from a moist finger or a pinched toe. Times, Sunday Times
He pinched the leaf between his thumb and forefinger.
On the sides it tapers gradually and smoothly from the ears to the end of the black nose, without being flared out in backskull (cheeky) or pinched in muzzle (snipy). Undefined
A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
Joe was slim and wiry, with blue eyes and rather pinched features.
Just over eight minutes later, defenseman Adrian Aucoin pinched along the right boards and fired a pass to the front of the net. NHL - National Hockey League - Toronto vs. N.Y. Islanders
The shoes, though elegant, pinched her feet terribly.
West pinched the reel of cotton after prison shirts were delivered to his cell in laundry bags for him to repair. The Sun
Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
His eyes stare dully from a pinched little face etched with pain and suffering.
Before and after pix pinched from the Malay Mail newspaper via Bibliobibuli Archive 2007-03-01
On the tube between High Street Kensington and Earl's Court in the hottest part of this afternoon, there was a woman with a pinched face and knuckles wrapped whitely around a small backpack.
The child was crying because somebody had pinched her.
Somebody pinched my sweater.
Possibly in answer a man got drunk and was pinched for being in charge of a horse and cart the while.
Child doesn't urinate for eight to 12 hours Child doesn't drink Child loses fluids through vomiting or diarrhea Child has sunken eyes or "doughy" skin that doesn't return to normal when pinched Child is not behaving normally, is unusually lethargic or irritable CoughsA cough that appears only at night, especially if it sounds like barking, could be a sign of croup. Special Issue: How Kids Grow Calling The Doctor
Anya pinched the bridge of her nose with her fingers, unwilling to let the conversation degenerate into a discussion of which member of the Order of the Golden Dawn had the brassiest balls. Sparks
The reflected light of the big screen plays on his taut and pinched face with the burning eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs. Lattimer stood by the doorway, her expression pinched, her hand at the collar of her shirt. CONFESSIONS
He pinched the child's cheek playfully.
He pinched his lips together, and gave a side glance at his two officers.
For blooming in winter, start young plants in February, or cut back old ones after flowering, and keep growing but pinched back and disbudded, in partial shade during the summer. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
He wiped the scattered crumbs on his tray to a neat heap and then pinched them between his fingers and gobbled them.
Mike's pinched, adenoidal tenor gave a little bite to the verses of their songs, but they were defined by Brian's angelic falsetto on the choruses.
West pinched the reel of cotton after prison shirts were delivered to his cell in laundry bags for him to repair. The Sun
Plants were pinched back to four leaves after 1 week and then were managed as stock plants.
He grabbed my right cheek and pinched it before going up the stairs.
The design themes - the long pointed nose, curved waistline and raised haunches, the raked roofline and the proportion of roof to body and the pinched-in waist, most apparent in plan view.
Interestingly, Valsalva maneuvers against pinched nostrils and closed glottis did, however, produce upward deflection of the eyes.
So much was the poor girl pinched, kicked, cut and pecked to pieces, that the boys in the street knew her only by the name of _ "pecked," _ a name derived from the scars and blotches on her neck, head and shoulders. My Bondage and My Freedom
The shoes, though elegant, pinched her feet terribly.
Geoffrey of Monmouth cheekily pinched this tale with the throwaway comment 'also called Merlin' and thus Merlin the Magician evicted Ambrosius from that part of the legend. Merlin Trilogy, by Mary Stewart. Book review
She wore purple contacts and had thin eyebrows to go along with her pinched cheeks and small chin.
Over tablas, handclaps, stick percussion, and a bass part that slams on three beats and then pauses for breath, a nodding organ alternating with a pinched little keyboard on the vaguely Middle Eastern preset plays the same couple of notes.
Wherefore discouragement comes from want of light, because they are not skilful in the word of righteousness: for had the discouragement at first been true, which yet it could not be, unless the person knew by name himself under eternal reprobation, which is indeed impossible, then his light would have pinched him harder; light would rather have fastened this his fear, than at all have rid him of it (Heb 5: 12-14). Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
With the slack in the rope, she darted forward, and pinched the bulge in her teeth, and tugged, eliciting a scream from Spade.
The result was a wave of invagination that went further, and actually pinched off a ‘neural tube’ screenshots a to h, overleaf. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Through her pinched-looking bifocals the salesclerk peered at me, saying, in a voice of reproach," That scarf is pure silk, from China. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
Izzie crept out last, and pinched dead the candle flame.
He pinched her behind
The leafless garden with its pinched grass and dirty London brick walls: would he see spring arrive there? Fiction
Mine started as a "twinge" in my neck almost as if I had pinched a nerve. California Literary Review
She looked to the side, and two faces hovered over her, both pinched and worried.
With his nylon socks and cigarette pinched between index finger and thumb, Liu looks like any other small-fry entrepreneur in China's hinterland. Yet he is different for two reasons.
Retouching flakes are tiny, extremely thin flakes pinched or pushed off a piece to finish it, to fine-shape part of the surface, sharpen it, or resharpen it.
Perhaps leaving the spare cars parked in various locations around town is not a bad idea anyway … … I bet no car radios were pinched from the Asda car park that day at least. This Little Piggy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
As indoor tomato plants grow taller, make sure they are properly staked and that the side shots are pinched out to encourage the plant to grow tall.
Asa pinched her lips in a grim line, meeting the strange man's cold green eyes.
Rumor held that a violent captain had caught him stealing a pudding, and had pinched the ear with tongs heated cherry-red in the galley stove. Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick
Blake pinched a lemon between his fingers and let it drain into his water glass. DO NO HARM
He pinched an apple.
The plot has a group of characters searching for a priceless Native American artefact, which is pinched during a poker game at a casino. Empire News
This condition is called a pinched nerve, slipped disc, or herniated disc.
It's said that Chicago Bears founder George Halas pinched pennies so tightly that his thumbprint looked like the profile of Abraham Lincoln.
With the Capitals enjoying a 5-on-3 advantage, Ovechkin pinched into the left circle and scored on a slap shot. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Atlanta vs. Washington
The gardener pinched out the weak shoot on a plant.
She had a small pinched face with sad eyes.
Apgood pinched his nose like an airline passenger trying to clear his eardrums, and looked Maxim over carefully.
His style has a certain bel canto elegance, but the sound is nasal and pinched. Times, Sunday Times
Bottom line is I think at least some IOR boats are under-rated; they can sail very well, especially in lighter air where the pinched ends reduce wetted surface and the big foretriangles provide power.
His lips were pinched in anger, his hands fisted.
Sylvia's mouth was pinched as she went on c1ln~rrili(~ lv `understand you stayed all night at his apartment Saturday night. FAMILY BLESSINGS
So for those working families that depend on their paychecks and much less on investment income, they're the ones that have been pinched the most.
He wiped the scattered crumbs on his tray to a neat heap and then pinched them between his fingers and gobbled them.
Nathan was tall, with a pale, pinched face, and David was shorter and almost stocky, with a tan and brownish hair.
A thief who pinched a pot of charity cash was later shamed into handing it back by angry shop staff.
The pair are said to have pinched the keys to the base's fuel pumps and siphoned off thousands of gallons. The Sun
LOS ANGELES - Taj Gibson didn't practice Sunday after suffering what he called a pinched nerve in his right foot. Chicagotribune.com - News
The kayo punch pinched a nerve in his neck and shelved his career.
The thief pinched her purse and ran away.
She muffled a small moan as his hand pinched her erect nipple through the dress.
She pinched her lips together and concentrated on her work.
Serious tuneage, the melody just hunts you down until your pinched into a corner with no escape route in sight.
In the present-day scenes, his face was pinched in pain. Times, Sunday Times
His style has a certain bel canto elegance, but the sound is nasal and pinched. Times, Sunday Times
My clothes were wet with sweat and I pinched my nose to ward off the stench from the dead seal. Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Halcyon day | Station151
The obvious and the ordinary were shoes that pinched his feet.
But it has been pinched and adapted by followers of countless teams. The Sun
A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation. Thoroughbreds
His style has a certain bel canto elegance, but the sound is nasal and pinched. Times, Sunday Times
She pinched his arm as hard as she could.
The door pinched my finger as it shut.
A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
Then, with his other nostril pinched closed, he should insert the nosepiece gently into the nostril and aim the spray out and down the nasal passage (not toward the middle of his nose) and sniff gently. Allergic rhinitis: symptoms, skin testing, treatment
BOB is an angry man - he has lost his girlfriend and now the culprit who stole her has pinched his lead role in the new play.
Recognition played across his pinched face.
His eyes stare dully from a pinched little face etched with pain and suffering.
I crouched down over Holly, and drew back the curtain of golden hair to reveal a white, pinched face.
The reflected light of the big screen plays on his taut and pinched face with the burning eyes. Times, Sunday Times
The pickpocket pinched her purse and ran away.
As indoor tomato plants grow taller, make sure they are properly staked and that the side shots are pinched out to encourage the plant to grow tall.
In the dim light of the tent his bony features reflected Leah's sallow grimace, Ksandra's pinched cheeks.
He pinched her cheek.
The pair are said to have pinched the keys to the base's fuel pumps and siphoned off thousands of gallons. The Sun
Delap has picked up a booking for a foul in the build-up.80 mins Excellent challenge from Shawcross inside the box, as Aston Villa break rapidly from a Stoke corner –Delfouneso feeding Albrighton down by the corner of the six-yard area and the latter looking to jink his way past the defender but finding the ball pinched off his toes as he skips down towards the goalline. Stoke v Aston Villa - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
Often at his desk there, his mind became strangely obtunded and he babbled vapidly; his big face pinched up till it seemed lean and grey, and he pitched forward, face down, upon the desk. Sally of Missouri
Records from one of the credit cards they pinched show that after leaving the crime scene, the thieves went straight to Tesco's and bought £44 worth of pizza.
The mother pinched her baby black and blue.
Arthur to Guenever, a white hart came into the hall, and thirty couple hounds, and how a brachet pinched the hart which was taken away. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
In the early going, Echo Eddie was pinched back in to third as the five-horse field was tightly bunched together in a rush from the gate.
Her parents pinched and scraped so that she could study singing abroad.
The door pinched my finger as it shut.
I stuck out my tongue and he pinched me, causing me to scrunch up my nose.
He was pinched with poverty in those days.
She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt.
She makes you feel as if you are witnessing the reactions to a disturbing scene, because anxiety is what you read in the whites of eyes, pinched cheeks, stringy hair.
The deck-piled sloops, the pinched chebacco-boats, The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete

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