Sentence examples for pinching hard from inspiring English sources

But minimum wages are ill-fitting garments, pinching hard in some places and leaving room in others.

Plus, I'm terrified of Kathy, who on other days will tenderly pat my head and even hug me, telling me I'm cute, before suddenly clamping my ear, pinching harder and harder until my knees buckle; once she even makes me lob curses up at our kitchen window, words so heinous that they might as well be rocks.

Pinch hard on the string with one hand and the other holding the string up.

Pinch hard ; pinch like your life depends on it (because it could!) For context, try pinching yourself in either of these places.

The social worker's eyes pinch harder.

Put him back and wait a while to pick him back up also don't shake your band It can cause them to pinch harder.

Test the quality by folding the material over and pinching it hard between finger and thumb; if a white line appears, don't buy it.

Though the charges appeared gradually over the years, they say, they are pinching particularly hard now, as the travel industry struggles to recover from the downturn in traffic after last year's terrorist attacks on the United States.

I was penny pinching so hard back then, I would try to live off of a single $5 Fresh-n-Ready pizza for two weeks.

Even the Washington Post editorial page, which has long been promoting a budget bargain built on more cuts, warned in its lead Sunday editorial, that austerity is pinching too hard -- in Europe, that is.

And you're probably not even pinching as hard as you could.