squeeze through

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Also, squeeze by. Manage to pass, win, or survive by a narrow margin, as in We squeezed through the second round of playoffs, or There was just enough food stored in the cabin for us to squeeze by until the hurricane ended. This idiom uses squeeze in the sense of “succeed by means of compression.” [c. 1700] Also see squeak by.

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How to use squeeze through in a sentence

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
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We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
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The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?
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Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
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It opens with Huckabee's dramatic recollection of going through security at the airport.
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Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
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A constant sense of easy balance should be developed through poising exercises.
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This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.
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Nothing remarkable occurred in our march through this country.
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Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.
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