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Example sentences for: pinched

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The movie uses her open Asian face to make the French faces seem neurotic and devious: Hers is like a clear pool next to their rather pinched visages.
With her twiglike frame and pinched features, Flockhart is a born Hermia.
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.
Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), the 15-year-old protagonist of Wes Anderson's well-reviewed comedy Rushmore , looks like Tom Cruise with his face pinched between a giant's thumb and forefinger so that his tiny eyes are squashed together and his big nose and teeth pop out.
Ruth reaches down to her crotch (while Joseph's heart pounds in excitement), and "between pinched fingers she held a single, wirelike hair.