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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:

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.”
Japanese commentators have happily adopted the American jargon of “Strike one, ball two,” “home run,” and “pinch hit. ”
In elementary school, we all endured a standard science experiment: If you shut your eyes and pinch your nose closed, can you tell any difference in the taste of a slice of apple, of carrot, of pear?
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.
Both Rivera and Bye added that despite the pinch in federal support, the generosity of their local bar associations and the Legal Aid Foundation keep the neediest in Northern Colorado well-represented.