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Definition of pinched in English: pinchedadjective pɪntʃtpɪn(t)ʃt 1Tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger. (因寒冷、忧虑或饥饿而)紧张和脸色苍白的 Example sentencesExamples - Danovin strode in with a pinched expression, and sighed as he leaned against the door, shooting into a sharp and speedy litany that made Visbec chuckle.
- On the tube between High Street Kensington and Earl's Court in the hottest part of this afternoon, there was a woman with a pinched face and knuckles wrapped whitely around a small backpack.
- The children looked pinched and hollow-eyed for want of food.
- In the dim light of the tent his bony features reflected Leah's sallow grimace, Ksandra's pinched cheeks.
- Prosser appears the stereotypical Welshman - pinched face, thin-rimmed spectacles and no sign of extravagance.
- Recognition played across his pinched face.
- Nathan was tall, with a pale, pinched face, and David was shorter and almost stocky, with a tan and brownish hair.
- Randomly, one or the other gets a pinched expression.
- The six cameras dotted around the court picked up her pinched and weary face as the Lord Advocate began questioning her.
- The vendor was a young woman with a pinched face.
- She wore purple contacts and had thin eyebrows to go along with her pinched cheeks and small chin.
- Augusta is a tall, thin girl with a pinched face with an unpleasant expression.
- Her usually rosy cheeks were now pinched and deathly pale.
- She looked to the side, and two faces hovered over her, both pinched and worried.
- Standing and gathering her cloak tightly around her shoulders she turned away from Madam Corbeau's pinched expression and down the lane.
- She makes you feel as if you are witnessing the reactions to a disturbing scene, because anxiety is what you read in the whites of eyes, pinched cheeks, stringy hair.
- The queen was a thin woman, with pointy elbows, a pinched face, and wispy white hair on which the crown marking her rank sat.
- There were bags under her eyes, and her face was pale and pinched looking.
- I crouched down over Holly, and drew back the curtain of golden hair to reveal a white, pinched face.
- He was thin and gaunt, with an odious pinched white face and fierce big black bushy eyebrows.
Synonyms strained, stressed, fraught, tense, taut, tired, worn, drained, sapped wan, peaky, pale, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, colourless, anaemic, washed out, ashen, ashen-faced, grey, blanched thin, drawn, haggard, gaunt, wizened, cadaverous, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed, emaciated 2Suffering from financial hardship. Example sentencesExamples - Its atmosphere is nonetheless bleak, evoking cold gray skies and a pinched existence in a slum area of town, with the ever-present fear of discrimination.
Definition of pinched in US English: pinchedadjectivepin(t)SHtpɪn(t)ʃt 1(of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger. (因寒冷、忧虑或饥饿而)紧张和脸色苍白的 Example sentencesExamples - Nathan was tall, with a pale, pinched face, and David was shorter and almost stocky, with a tan and brownish hair.
- Standing and gathering her cloak tightly around her shoulders she turned away from Madam Corbeau's pinched expression and down the lane.
- He was thin and gaunt, with an odious pinched white face and fierce big black bushy eyebrows.
- Augusta is a tall, thin girl with a pinched face with an unpleasant expression.
- Recognition played across his pinched face.
- She wore purple contacts and had thin eyebrows to go along with her pinched cheeks and small chin.
- There were bags under her eyes, and her face was pale and pinched looking.
- I crouched down over Holly, and drew back the curtain of golden hair to reveal a white, pinched face.
- On the tube between High Street Kensington and Earl's Court in the hottest part of this afternoon, there was a woman with a pinched face and knuckles wrapped whitely around a small backpack.
- In the dim light of the tent his bony features reflected Leah's sallow grimace, Ksandra's pinched cheeks.
- The six cameras dotted around the court picked up her pinched and weary face as the Lord Advocate began questioning her.
- The children looked pinched and hollow-eyed for want of food.
- Danovin strode in with a pinched expression, and sighed as he leaned against the door, shooting into a sharp and speedy litany that made Visbec chuckle.
- She makes you feel as if you are witnessing the reactions to a disturbing scene, because anxiety is what you read in the whites of eyes, pinched cheeks, stringy hair.
- Randomly, one or the other gets a pinched expression.
- The queen was a thin woman, with pointy elbows, a pinched face, and wispy white hair on which the crown marking her rank sat.
- She looked to the side, and two faces hovered over her, both pinched and worried.
- The vendor was a young woman with a pinched face.
- Prosser appears the stereotypical Welshman - pinched face, thin-rimmed spectacles and no sign of extravagance.
- Her usually rosy cheeks were now pinched and deathly pale.
Synonyms strained, stressed, fraught, tense, taut, tired, worn, drained, sapped 2Hurt by financial hardship. (人)为缺钱而苦恼的 consumers feel pinched by rising costs in repairs and housing Example sentencesExamples - Its atmosphere is nonetheless bleak, evoking cold gray skies and a pinched existence in a slum area of town, with the ever-present fear of discrimination.
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