Sentence examples for cold pinched from inspiring English sources

Another man describes the moment that he stepped off a plane from Sri Lanka to start a new life in Britain – the cold pinched his nose.

This is complicated, but westerners have often dreamed of Asia as a zone of hedonism, he says, of guiltless liberation from the "cold, pinched and dreary climate of the Christian, especially Protestant, West" -- in other words, from the missionaries.

Indeed, it's a film that leaves you rather longing never to be in love again - until you see the curiously cold, pinched beauty of Ann Todd anew (she was Lean's wife at the time).

But while copying down the point's alphanumeric code, I felt a cold pinch on my wrist that turned out to be a spider bite.

Despite his at-all-costs outlook, the cold that pinched the Yukon at the start of this year's Quest was a hurdle.

Von Bismarck plunged into the snow after the men; the cold air pinched his lungs as he ran — he later said that he felt as if his chest had been submerged in ice water.

Von Bismarck plunged into the snow after the men; the cold air pinched his lungs as he ran he later said that he felt as if his chest had been submerged in ice water.

The number of branches of streams is properly adjusted at the pinch to engage all hot at-pinch streams (above the pinch) and all cold at-pinch streams (below the pinch) in matches.

Yanking the play into 1919, Mitchell appropriates it to her favourite era and climate, an early 20th century where a catastrophe has happened, Freudianism hovers, most people look pinched with cold and there is always a need for an umbrella.

That is why he inches ever nearer to Philomena, with her daunting faith in forgiveness and restraint, and also why her last closeups, clawed with age and pinched with cold, strike us as Shakespearean: like patience on a monument, smiling at grief.

Duncan Smith chose better with his visit to Glasgow's Easterhouse estate, although subsequent repeated references to the Pauline, compassion- inducing scale of this experience, tended to confirm, perhaps unhelpfully, that the discovery of poor people - particularly those pinched with cold and dying for a fag - is, like a gap year or soft drugs, something probably best dealt with before you hit 30.