Sentence examples for pinch something from inspiring English sources

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It came straight over, looked up at me, then proceeded to try and pinch something from my open camera bag.

Playing Liverpool really is once-in-a-lifetime stuff and hopefully we can can pinch something".

While the Filipino word "gigil" describes the urge to pinch something because it is cute, Aragon told HuffPost there is no English equivalent.

Get your friend to hold out his/her first finger and middle finger so that it looked like he/she was trying to pinch something or like a pair of chopsticks.

It wasn't a smooth smile, but a patient with an injured hand, if you give him the slightest bit of improvement, they love it -- a pinch, something they can turn a page with.

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"What we don't want," James is saying, emotionlessly, "is this," and he motions the act of a hand pinching something invisible then bringing it up to the mouth and eating it, like you would perform the act of eating a prawn from a buffet if you were in a particularly weird drama class where you had to do that.

Having spent almost 20 years recording the miserable, heartbreaking decline of Britain's wildlife, I find I have to pinch myself when something comes along to reverse the trend.

"We're hoping for the best, that he would maybe be able to pinch hit or something tonight," Mattingly said.

To remind yourself to think before saying something, pinch yourself on the finger or somewhere discreet (gently, but just enough to get yourself on track).

In more detail; try and put the books away, along the the merchandise, in a box in your attic, ask your friends to pinch you (or something less painful)every time you mention it.

Or they could call for a pinch of something, and we don't know exactly what a pinch was for them".

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