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Example sentences for "pinch"

Lexicographically close words:
pinang; pinax; pince; pincer; pincers; pinchbeck; pinched; pinchers; pinches; pinching
  1. He puts them on, to find that they pinch him in the same place as the old pair.

  2. The Army Service Corps drive about in motors, pinch our rations, and draw princely incomes.

  3. But his pinch will come in learning properly to shape his mind's attitude toward all things, and especially toward his fellow man.

  4. They could face the pinch of famine, the grip of scurvy, or the quick death by field or flood; but the pictured semblance of a stranger woman and child made women and children of them all.

  5. But, like the weak man he was, when the pinch came he did neither of these things.

  6. And, no doubt, when the pinch came, Sir George was just like the rest.

  7. He is the sort of chap who is wedded to the family home, and when the pinch comes you'll find him ready for anything.

  8. A pinch or a stroke of a cane may restore consciousness.

  9. If so, the question is repeated; if not, another pinch or stroke is administered.

  10. The way we were created, it's an incentive to pinch waists.

  11. Give not to Hospitals; thy Name’s enough: To death-face Famine, not a pinch of snuff.

  12. He gave up the custom of offering a pinch to his neighbours, and it was recognised as a breach of good manners to dip uninvited into a man’s box.

  13. Whereupon certain men would pinch out the glow of their cigarettes and grind the stubs into the sod under their heels, and go in to find partners.

  14. Lance unfolded his arms and disposed his big body on a bearskin covered lounge where he could take Belle's hand and pat it and playfully pinch a finger now and then.

  15. Brush the top edge of the pie with beaten egg, put on the cover, press the edges, and pinch them round with paste-pincers.

  16. Pinch the edges of the pudding together, tie over it a floured cloth, put it into boiling water, and boil from 2 to 2½ hours.

  17. To render this dish more economical, substitute milk for the cream, but add a small pinch of isinglass to make the creams firm.

  18. Fold the edges over, and pinch them together, to prevent the juice escaping.

  19. Milk may be preserved good in hot weather, for a few hours, by placing the jug which contains it in ice, or very cold water; or a pinch of bicarbonate of soda may be introduced into the liquid.

  20. Throw the macaroni and butter into boiling water, with a pinch of salt, and simmer for ½ an hour.

  21. A pinch of salt is an improvement to the generality of puddings; but this ingredient should be added very sparingly, as the flavour should not be detected.

  22. Put each cake on a separate piece of paper, roll the paste out square to the thickness of about an inch, and pinch it upon all sides.

  23. Make a thin cream of the flour and milk; then beat up the eggs, mix all together, and add a pinch of salt and a few grains of cayenne.

  24. After I have treated with a dram, and presented a pinch of my best snuff, I expect all company will retire, and leave me to pursue my studies for the good of the public.

  25. If Charlotte swallowed hard at a lump in her throat, and Celia lingered an instant behind the rest to pinch the colour back into her cheeks, nobody observed it.

  26. That will be a rest," agreed Celia, with a private pinch of Evelyn's arm, and Lucy and Randolph giggled.

  27. You have a fear o' times that a metaphor will prove grotesque or mean: or a vein of thought pinch and go out from ore to bare limestone.

  28. Peggy, wisely; then she pinched herself, and with the pinch the whole thing came back.

  29. Nonesuch tapped upon his neighbor's snuff-box, and, with his only hand, drew out a mighty pinch by way of emphasis.

  30. Adam and Eve and Pinchme" he would pinch you at once without waiting like a gentleman until you had got to the end of the verse.

  31. XV Humphrey Greddon, in the Duke's place, would have taken a pinch of snuff.

  32. Tom Pinch is all very well in Dickens, but it would be inconvenient in actual life; for suppose you married?

  33. It might be cheerful for me if Roland were to spend his evenings at home as Tom Pinch in Dickens did with his sister.

  34. Wash your pails and cleanse your dairies, Sluts are loathsome to the fairies; Sweep your house; Who doth not so, Mab will pinch her by the toe.

  35. A pinch means about one-eighth, so does a saltspoon; less means a dash or a few grains.

  36. One pound of finely chopped lean mutton, including some of the bone, one pint cold water, pinch of salt.

  37. One pound of finely chopped round steak, six ounces of cold water, a pinch of salt; place in a covered jar and stand on ice or in a cold place, five or six hours or overnight.

  38. With some infants the addition of a pinch of bicarbonate of soda may be advantageously made to each milk-feeding when the lime-water is omitted, but with most this is unnecessary.

  39. The white of one fresh egg; half a pint of cold water; pinch of salt; teaspoonful of brandy.

  40. I was the very next man in line to plant my first ten with one of the books, when I felt a hard pinch on my right arm, and I wheeled around suddenly to swat the duck that had given it to me.

  41. I asked 'em to get around me and pinch me, because I wanted to find out if I was dreaming or not, but they were too busy leaning back in their chairs and roaring like so many wild asses of the woods to pay any attention to me.

  42. Kaunitz took a pinch of snuff, and replied coldly, "I suppose nothing about it.

  43. Will you allow me a pinch from your snuff-box?

  44. You are resolved to speak of Poland," said Frederick, again taking so large a pinch of snuff that it bedaubed not only his face, but his white Austrian uniform.

  45. And it would seem that the Empress of Russia has some intention of making a serious attack upon the poor old lady," said Frederick, while for the second time he took a pinch from the snuff-box of the crafty Austrian.

  46. Bud's tough and full of life and fun And likes to race about and run, And tease the girls; the rascal knows The slyest ways to pinch a nose, And yank a curl until it hurts, And disarrange their Sunday skirts.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstract; ace; afflict; agonize; alternate; alternative; annex; apprehend; apprehension; approach; appropriate; arrest; arresting; atom; backup; bag; beat; beggary; begrudge; bind; bit; bite; boost; borrow; burglary; burn; bust; caper; capture; carry; catch; center; centralize; chafe; clamp; climacteric; close; clutch; collar; complication; compress; compression; compulsion; concentrate; constraint; contingency; converge; convulse; cop; counterfeit; cramp; crib; crick; crisis; crook; crossroads; crucify; crunch; crush; crux; cubbyhole; cut; dash; defraud; deprivation; destitution; detain; detention; difficulty; distress; dole; dot; dram; dribble; driblet; drive; drop; dummy; dwarf; embarrassment; embezzle; emergency; equivalent; exact; exigency; extort; extremity; fake; farthing; fester; filch; fragment; fret; funnel; gall; get; gnaw; gnawing; gouge; grab; grain; granule; grate; grind; gripe; groat; grudge; hair; handful; harrow; hazard; help; hinge; hitch; hobble; hole; hook; hurt; imbroglio; imitation; impulse; indigence; inflame; intersect; iota; irritate; jam; jeopardy; job; joker; jot; juncture; kink; knock; lacerate; lack; lift; limit; little; make; makeshift; martyr; meet; menace; mendicancy; mess; minim; minimum; minutiae; mite; mix; mock; modicum; molecule; morass; morsel; mote; nail; necessity; need; netting; nick; nip; nutshell; ounce; pain; palm; pang; paroxysm; particle; pass; pauperism; pebble; penury; peril; phony; pick; pickle; pickup; pierce; pigeonhole; pilfer; pillage; pinch; pirate; pittance; playhouse; plight; ply; poach; pocket; point; poverty; predicament; press; pressure; prick; privation; provisional; proxy; pull; purloin; push; quagmire; quicksand; rack; rankle; rasp; reserve; risk; robbery; rub; rustle; scamp; scant; scrape; screw; scrimp; scruple; secondary; seize; seizure; shoot; shooting; shortage; skimp; slough; smart; snag; snake; snare; snatch; snitch; spare; spasm; speck; spot; squeeze; squeezing; stab; starve; steal; stealing; stew; sting; stint; stitch; strait; straits; stress; substitute; swamp; swindle; swipe; take; taper; taste; temporary; tension; tentative; theft; thieve; thievery; thieving; threat; thrill; throes; tighten; tightening; tittle; token; torment; torture; touch; trifle; turn; tweak; twinge; twist; twitch; unite; urge; urgency; utility; vicarious; vulture; wad; want; whit; wound; wrench; wrest; wring