pinch
verb (used with object)
to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
has been pinching
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present perfect progressiveof pinch (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Why, swag, plunder—what your gentleman has been pinching right and left for years—the pieces.
From Victory An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
"What old witch has been pinching you, Horse Shoe, that you are up so early?" asked Adair.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
The good old creature, no doubt, has been pinching herself for years on your account.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
“Please, sir, Mahtab Din has been pinching me.”
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
