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Example sentences for: pinch

How can you use “pinch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

You are all too familiar with Indiana's budget pinch and the pressures on state government to cut expenditures.
This functional adaptation uses two miniature OEM peristaltic pumps, each in conjunction with a pinch valve, and 0.031-in.
This she did unblushingly, though both `accident' and `pinch' were retrospective aggrandizements, her hands having been quite deliberately slammed in a car door, twice each.”
But what if times get tough and caps start to pinch?
Editor Abdelbari Atwan reported that all the Gulf states, hard hit by the collapse of oil prices and blaming Western countries for it, have taken an unpublicized decision to "freeze" arms purchases so that their Western suppliers will also feel the pinch.