Sentence examples for seemed squeezed from inspiring English sources

Here was a classic matchup between two great N.F.L. franchises with a history, yet the spurts of action seemed squeezed between visions of the apocalypse.

But as is often the case when novels are translated to the stage, the narrative seemed squeezed and superficial, cramped by the necessity of wrapping things up in the allotted time.

The rain intensified yet one more notch; the Fred F. French Building developed a positively livid stain along its bricks and the scene seemed squeezed so tight that it yielded the essence of granite, the very idea of a city.

In China, everything seems squeezed together and small.

Ms. Ledgerwood's blooms consist of four large circles whose vaguely figurative cruciform arrangement seems squeezed onto a field of contrasting color.

With or without Nadal involved, Murray, Djokovic, Roddick and del Potro are consensus contestants for the non-Federer spots, and the dark horse Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and the former contender Nikolay Davydenko seem squeezed out.

This leads to the usual law of diminishing returns: in the final, weaker novels, what fiction there ever was seems squeezed out of frame by the weight of a compulsive repetition.

Isaac sits cross-legged on a tree stump, wearing an expression so serious that his features seem squeezed into a single dot at the center of his bald head.

The fleshy and ever swelling neck seems jammed, squeezed into that throttling cravat.

Robinson seemed to squeeze through even the smallest of openings in his offensive line and the Huskies' defense.

"He always seemed to squeeze in his golf game no matter where he went, but he always made time for his family," says his wife, Tina.