Words similar to pinched

Example sentences for: pinched

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

Ruth reaches down to her crotch (while Joseph's heart pounds in excitement), and "between pinched fingers she held a single, wirelike hair.
She's brisk, and pinched, and a bit censorious--you have the feeling that she has a moral position on, say, French food.
With her twiglike frame and pinched features, Flockhart is a born Hermia.
Osment's pinched, old-young face suggests an ancient's insight without an ancient's defenses--a sensitivity so exquisitely morbid that you worry more for his emotional than physical well-being.
He writes a twice-weekly column that appears in nearly 500 newspapers and a biweekly column for Newsweek . He also appears every Sunday morning on ABC's This Week . His pinched, professorial face may be the most recognizable mug in journalism.