Sentence examples for to pinch something from inspiring English sources

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.

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

"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.

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.

But on Friday they did, and the arrival on stage of the cream of at least three generations of largely British and Commonwealth singing talent was something you had to pinch yourself to take in.

"To win an Olympic medal of any colour was almost unthinkable, so six gold medals later it's something I have to pinch myself about".

I was commentating on the event and, when you're part of something like that, sometimes you have to pinch yourself.

"It's something I've always wanted to do and I have to pinch myself that I'll get the opportunity on Saturday," he told BBC Radio Manchester.