Sentence examples for is pinching from inspiring English sources
verb
To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- The children were scolded for pinching each other.
Frustrated with the hopelessness of the job market, she is pinching pennies.
The conflict is an "unnecessary irritant", he says, but it "is pinching them more than it is hurting us".
By the second installment, "Kit Learns a Lesson," Kit is pinching pennies and volunteering in a soup kitchen.
The House is pinching pennies and is on track to give its initial approval to a budget that cuts deeply into public and higher education and social services.
In a black-and-white photograph, a child is pinching a glass marble between forefinger and thumb, holding it just in front of her face.
Meanwhile, the slowdown in global construction is pinching sales at its Otis elevator and Carrier heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment units.
But her smile is pinched.
The middle class is pinched, too.
When the DP is pinched, the reference points glided towards the distal side without any force.
When the MP joint is pinched, the reference points move towards the dorsal-radial direction.
NBC executives are pinching themselves.
