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Example sentences for: pinched

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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.
She's brisk, and pinched, and a bit censorious--you have the feeling that she has a moral position on, say, French food.
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.
Shaved hair could grow back, pinched waists fill out, flattened breasts swell up.
Sensenbrenner, who has a stupendous Wisconsin accent and a tiny, pinched voice that sounds silly in such a beefy man, does not dazzle.