Sentence examples similar to has been pinch from inspiring English sources

What do you say about a man who, in the span of a few unsightly days, has been pinch-hit for and benched on multiple occasions, essentially stripped of his professional dignity one step before the World Series?

He said he thought Alex Rodriguez — who has slumped so badly (2 for 19) in the postseason that he has been pinch-hit for in the last three games he has played and was benched all together for another game — would be one of them.

This idea has been pinched from penguins.

He's a young aristocrat who has been pinching knickknacks from his own house to pawn.

The shining soprano has been pinched into stridency by Long Island lockjaw.

She has already has been pinched by Republicans for comparing Senator Kerry to a "fine aged wine".

THE recession has been pinching the real estate market in New York, in ways both obvious and mysterious.

Most schools do not have much discretionary money to pay for the trips, and parent fund-raising has been pinched by the economy.

Compensation experts are predicting it will be a rough year on Wall Street, where profit has been pinched by falling trading revenue.

For several years, the small-banking sector has been pinched on one side by the rising costs of compliance and technology, and on the other by historically low interest rates (which cut into lending margins).

That enables the good guys to improve security in the case where something has been pinched, the bad guys to be admonished if they have been up to something they should not have been doing, and everyone else to sleep more easily in their beds.