Sentence example with the word 'pinch'

pinch

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Definition n. a painful or straitened circumstance

Last update: June 10, 2015


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Add a pinch of salt to this dish.   [noun]

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Ravi pinched the small babies soft cheeks.   [noun]

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The new sandals pinched me.   [verb]

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The door pinched Ravi's finger as it shut.   [Please select]

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Robbers pinched off Ravi's money.   [Please select]

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Mala's one of the bad habit is giving a pinch to others.   [Please select]

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You just have to take the abduction scenario with a large pinch of salt.   [noun]

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Pour on a glug of olive oil, grind on some pepper, sprinkle over a scant pinch of chili.   [noun]

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Nothing, except your battery, without a pinch of powder.   [Please select]

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That anxious gaze, the dark yellow complexion, and those great beads of sweat that poured down the pinched countenance too plainly indicated the disease which had desolated London.   [Please select]

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And therewithal, he hummed a stanza: 'And what though winter will pinch severe Through locks of grey and a cloak that's old.'   [Please select]

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"But I hae come a' this way on purpose to deliver it, Francis, and ye really maun help me at a pinch."'   [Please select]

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Then, after the usual pinch of snuff from the Rector's long gold box, the host returned to the subject he had been full of before this interruption.   [Please select]

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