Sentence examples for has been pinching from inspiring English sources

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

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

This idea has been pinched from penguins.

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".

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.

Though the peso has been pinched 33% on the year, December 2008 retail spending dropped just 3.3% in the area compared to the same month in 2007.

In the short-term, demand has been pinched by Hurricane Harvey, which slammed Texas a couple weeks back.