Sentence examples for be pinched from inspiring English sources

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be pinched

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To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

  • The children were scolded for pinching each other.

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"I would be pinched and shoved.

"It would probably only be pinched again," she says.

The graphic can be pinched and stretched to show weekly price swings.

The coach's pipeline to the endless talent of West Africa and the Caribbean will be pinched.

Yesterday, he didn't want to be pinched and neither did those who had the pleasure of hearing his story.

In the climax of the Windsor Park scene, Verdi's Falstaff is supposed to be pinched and poked by townspeople pretending to be goblins.

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Nasser Hussain must be pinching himself sore.

The network executives must be pinching themselves.

At least Craig won't be pinch-hitting.

If that was then, Giroud must be pinching himself now.

"I will always be pinching myself," he says.

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