Example Sentences

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Turns out I had been squeezing the muscles of my throat too hard, because if I didn’t, my voice became half-whisper.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

These higher costs had been squeezing margins causing concern particularly among short term traders.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2018

From the start he felt that Starr had been squeezing Lewinsky without mercy, threatening her family with subpoenas, intimidating, misleading, baiting and switching.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been squeezing it in his hand until it was soft and malleable.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Lord Deepmere, he observed, was very red in the face, and he had twisted his gloves into a tight cord as if he had been squeezing them dry.

From The American by James, Henry