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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:

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.
' To give una dedada de miel `a pinch of honey,' or dar jabón (or enjabonar) literally `to give soap' or `to wash with soap' you can flatter someone or `soft-soap' him.
Japanese commentators have happily adopted the American jargon of “Strike one, ball two,” “home run,” and “pinch hit. ”
Because of a history of foreign occupation, the city is an eclectic medley of architectural styles: China seasoned with a dash of Japan, a pinch of old Russia, and a forcible hint of Soviet socialist realism.
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.”