Sentence examples for was pressed from inspiring English sources

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was pressed

verb

To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight

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He was pressed on other issues.

"It was pressed in by the wind.

This table is used to figure out what was pressed.

This tells us which column of the keyboard was pressed.

His linen suit was pressed and hanging by the stove.

He was pressed there, breathing, sinking into the door.

The theme was pressed home at the pageant's end.

"The shutter was pressed by the monkey," he wrote.

When Sanders was pressed for an explanation, he almost slipped.

She was pressed against one of the dead trees.

Nineteen were hanged, and one was pressed to death.

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