Read full poem →And what below the scythe increa-sed
Ih pinched yet nearer by the beast.
Such, in the painted world, appeared
Dictionary Entry
To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
In a Sentence
“The children were scolded for pinching each other.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “pinched”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Like thunder. When this morning broke,
My face was pinched, my hair was gray,
And frozen blood was on the sill
Read full poem →The Senegalese started again, as if he had been
pinched behind, to the defense of the protectress of his
country. But the proprietor brought down La Race
Read full poem →And eyes like little dollars in the dark.
His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark;
And when he spoke there came like sullen blows
Read full poem →Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,
And, pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower,
With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,
Read full poem →He thought how slow time went, stamping his feet,
And blowing on his fingers, pinched with cold.
Read full poem →about the pinches, to make them somewhat weker, and as
well commynge as where it pinched, and so the pinches shall
dye, and never encrease farther in to great freates.
Read full poem →sewet, and put nexte your fynger, and so on wyth youre
glove. If yet you fele your fynger pinched, leave shootyng
Read full poem →And was his plaything often when a child;
But somewhat at that moment pinched him close,
Else he was seldom bitter or morose.