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Example sentences for "being pressed"

  • On being pressed he consented, and the old man prepared a great feast, and asked some of the high officials to be present, telling Ma to paint himself as before.

  • Then getting up, he told his servants to go on ahead and get something ready; Feng at first declining to go with him, but yielding on being pressed.

  • One day the latter invited the master to walk into the cave, which he at first declined, but accepted on being pressed by the fox; and when he got inside, lo!

  • The crank J serves to move the table to and fro on the rods K, and the table also rises and falls on planed ways, being pressed up by springs.

  • A and B are the bars and E the straight-edge, which by being pressed firmly to the surface of A discloses that the surface of A is not in line with B, because if it were so the straight-edge would meet the face of B as in Fig.

  • Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

  • Titmouse; who, on being pressed by the doctor, abused him in no very choice terms--and finally ordered him out of the room!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being pressed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being affected; being baptized; being borne; being cast; being caught; being come; being disturbed; being driven; being drunk; being easily; being entirely; being gone; being held; being just; being made; being mentioned; being near; being permitted; being questioned; being still; being true; being turned; days later; little brothers; palm wine; secretary general