The phrase "pressed for an answer" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to say that someone is being asked a question which they must answer quickly. For example: "The interviewer was pressing her for an answer."
"More diapers?" he joked when pressed for an answer about what he might buy.
When pressed for an answer, I'll say The Jungle Line is probably my favourite Joni Mitchell track.
But if pressed for an answer, Belichick could certainly provide a range of probabilities for each of those branches.
Pressed for an answer on Makhul, Netanyahu might respond that the evicted residents had lived there illegally, with no license granted to build homes.
Khrushchev pressed for an answer from the man he had regarded as a close friend, and whom indeed he had appointed as KGB chief three years earlier.
He is hard pressed for an answer when asked about the downside of the commute, pointing out that he packs in visits with friends and family and stocks up on his favourite foods when he's in London.
When pressed for a response, answer with a polite, "I've got a lot of work to do".
Oborne writes that Insole considered the events surrounding the selection meeting as among the worst of his life, but that "he and the other selectors were victims of the decision, reached on the advice of Alec Douglas-Home early in 1968, not to press for an answer to the MCC demand there should be 'no preconditions' for the tour.
When pressed for a definite answer on whether WA would re-sign the agreement, a spokesman for Hames said there was no agreement on the table for the state to sign.
When pressed for a sensible answer, Dalman admitted he had only one candidate in mind, which we can safely assume was Solskjaer, but said David Kerslake, formerly Mackay's assistant, would remain in charge on a temporary basis for Wednesday's onerous trip to Arsenal.
When a candidate is pressed for a specific answer to a question asked by any elite media's reporter, the candidate could avoid being caught saying something that would become fodder for his opposition by merely scrunching his eyebrows, shrugging his shoulders and prophetically proclaiming, "ver veyst" -- "who knows".
