Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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Examples for "pinched"
Examples for "pinched"
1Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
2Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
3I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
4But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
5I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
1Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
2My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
3Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
4And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
5He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
1No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
2The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
3Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
4It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
5Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
1He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.
2In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious.
3Lavish in her generosity to others, she was personally frugal, even penurious.
4They were selfish and penurious, and hard-hearted and severe towards their servants.
5Are there not many in their midst who are friendless and penurious?
1Parents were too hard up to provide any extra money, she said.
2The wind is blowing hard up above and the waves are high.
3Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling.
4I took the ring because I was hard up-neededmoney at once.
5The only thing I can think about now is being hard up.
1He died last year and left his widow and child in straitened circumstances.
2Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable.
3He, however, is not at all sanguine, as Germany is itself in straitened circumstances.
4What if he did, in straitened circumstances, accept their aid?
5The year above mentioned, the last of that term, found the poet in straitened circumstances.
6The guardians whom he appointed appropriated the estate, leaving Demosthenes and his sister in straitened circumstances.
7The Duchess d'Orleans is also in straitened circumstances.
8Many of them were the sons of wealthy parents, while he at times was in straitened circumstances.
9Of course they are in straitened circumstances.
10The family is still in straitened circumstances, the father having proved too weak a character to support them.
11Domestic viewers may frown a little at the frequent complaints that the school is now in straitened circumstances.
12I've always been in straitened circumstances.
13And all those who live in straitened circumstances, though keeping up the appearance of comfort,-howmany are there of those?
14Many of the wealthy found themselves in straitened circumstances, and many of the poor suffered and died for want of food.
15He had been banished from the French Court for his participation in the insurrection of Brittany, and was living in straitened circumstances.
16I understand Mrs Irving is not a churchwoman, and she may be in real need, as the family is in straitened circumstances.