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单词 pinched
释义
pinchedpinched /pɪntʃt/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Cuts in spending are having a direct effect on the already pinched local schools.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Her face had gone white and very pinched.
  • I ignored such men with their closed faces and pinched noses.
  • In the gap between the brassière and the pinched waistband of her skirt, her flesh bulged in a pale soft band.
  • Ruth looked away in panic then braved herself to look back but the gaunt, pinched face had gone.
  • She has also a teething baby, pinched and veined and smelling of milk.
  • The pinched woman in a pink overall and blue mittens in the ticket office squinted at our passes and nodded us on.
  • They went home with pinched ears and bruised legs where she'd hit them.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Ruth looked away in panic then braved herself to look back but the gaunt, pinched face had gone.· While he shook out the blanket and brushed down his trousers Ruth turned her pinched face towards the sea.· The heat in the tent, the pinched faces and the angry voices were all becoming unbearable.· The man behind the desk eyed us suspiciously, heavy rucsacs on tired shoulders, pinched faces from the frozen air.· Lily was holding forth, her pinched face sallow with indignation.
a pinched face looks thin and unhealthy, for example because the person is ill, cold, or tired:  She had a small pinched face with sad eyes.
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