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Example sentences for: pinched

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Or consider: “Kate—explained—the scars —were the result of a car accident in which her hands had been pinched.
She's brisk, and pinched, and a bit censorious--you have the feeling that she has a moral position on, say, French food.
Ruth reaches down to her crotch (while Joseph's heart pounds in excitement), and "between pinched fingers she held a single, wirelike hair.
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.
What everybody thinks, and nobody can print, is that the president got his Asian associates to pony up, lest a pinched pal feel the urge to sing to Starr.