sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
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pinched
How to use pinched in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for pinched.
Editorial note
So if you find you can breathe through a pinched nose, you know you're dreaming.
Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of pinched gathered in one view.
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
not having enough money to pay for necessities
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for pinched.
adjective
sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
See also: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted
adjective
not having enough money to pay for necessities
See also: impecunious, penniless, penurious
adjective
as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
Example sentences
So if you find you can breathe through a pinched nose, you know you're dreaming.
They had the pinched hysteresis loops in the 70's.
I've been learning recently that one of my chief sources of stress is feeling pinched for time.
This will eventually cause the pinched wall between the magnets to die, forming a hole.
Fingers will also be pinched and possibly broken.
That was when we started it. But from that point I didn't feel pinched anymore because I had a regular salary.
An employee doesn't have a seat sitting around that table, so he is more likely to be pinched by dilution that the founders or the VCs.
Now they'll be pinched by people being cheap as shit on the upside and google migrating some of the best features into their presumably free iphone client on the low side.
The rest of the article describes how it's being pinched out of employees' schedules using performance evaluation policies.
Ultimately buck stops with you, you would look very stupid arguing that a stranger walked off the street and pinched your laptop, better yet, if you leave your laptop on your front lawn.
My brother in Columbus, Ohio, with a health plan for a director level position in a Fortune 1000 company, got a referral to a neurologist for a pinched nerve.
The hardware team were really pushing for a slightly cheaper version of the microcontroller with only 512 bytes RAM but as we software folks were feeling pinched even at 768, they got overruled.
The alignment in the second flyer makes no sense, and in combination with the closeness of the title and the photo the whole top part of the flyer looks pinched together.- The telephone number is large and easy to read.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use pinched in a sentence?
So if you find you can breathe through a pinched nose, you know you're dreaming.
What does pinched mean?
sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
What part of speech is pinched?
pinched is commonly used as adjective.