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Scrunch


Definition:

  • (v. t. & v. i.) To scranch; to crunch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I scanned quickly through the available faces: there was one, all scrunched up in dismay about something or other.
  • (2) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
  • (3) Crack in the egg and use your hands to scrunch everything together.
  • (4) He showed me a scrunched piece of paper, which was thrown into a school playground.
  • (5) He's scrunching up his eyes in order to forget the pain.
  • (6) 47 min Busquets pulls a short corner back to Alonso, who scrunches it miles over the bar from 20 yards.
  • (7) And learning the Korean for, “I need to go to the toilet,” would have saved me countless afternoons of scrunch-faced detergent-soaked floor-scrubbing.
  • (8) Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades.
  • (9) I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just put on extra pairs of underwear and threw them away one-by-one, scrunched at the bottom of the bathroom trash bin, as I bled through them.
  • (10) When it came to paying, he pulled a pile of £50 notes out of his pocket, most of them scrunched up like used tissues.
  • (11) It may help to hold the potatoes in a scrunched-up towel.
  • (12) I was finishing at four [am] some days.” He cracks up again, the sound like a crisp packet being scrunched.
  • (13) Despite its hero's ineptitude, Goldfinger is full of quintessential Bond moments, all of which have since been recycled or spoofed so many times you forget this is where they began – Bond tricking the jailer into opening his cell door, a minor bad guy's car reduced to a scrunched-up cube in a scrapyard compactor, the villain shooting his own henchmen.
  • (14) 4 Scrunch up a large piece of greaseproof paper into a ball and smooth it back out again (I promisethis makes it much easier to work with).
  • (15) Apartment blocks were smashed, steel beams scrunched and metal fences shredded by shrapnel.
  • (16) And the final ball is fended away, quite possibly with his eyes scrunched close.
  • (17) He has scrunched up an entire stone corner of the London School of Economics into a rocky tumble, hanging precipitously above the street in Aldwych, and sliced a Thames dredger in half and anchored it outside the Millennium Dome.
  • (18) She is as chic and telegenic as he is overly tanned and scrunch-faced.
  • (19) Indoor ball games These are best played with a scrunched-up ball of paper.
  • (20) A copy of the Sun with the money edging up to £50,000 was found carefully folded in his flat, unlike a Daily Mirror, which was scrunched in the bin.

Squeeze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.
  • (v. t.) To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.
  • (v. i.) To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; -- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.
  • (n.) The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.
  • (n.) A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
  • (2) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
  • (3) The court ruling is just the latest attempt to squeeze Abdi off her land.
  • (4) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (5) In the most hard-hitting attack on the Labour leader by any of his MPs since Ukip squeezed the party’s vote in the Heywood and Middleton byelection, Field accused Miliband of “pissing while Rome burns”.
  • (6) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (7) The Queen Boat case was one of three big sex stories that helped to squeeze bad news out of the papers around the same time.
  • (8) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
  • (9) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (10) A reduction in anal resting pressure was detected in the faecally incontinent geriatric patients but squeeze pressure did not differ significantly from that found in the other geriatric patients.
  • (11) The head of the TUC, Frances O'Grady, said she supported the aims of the foundation, but was wary of endorsing changes that allowed retailers to squeeze under the wire without raising the pay of the lowest-paid workers.
  • (12) Either way, both methods see the smugglers try to squeeze every last drop of profit from their clients.
  • (13) "The forces of capitalism are squeezing out anything that doesn't focus on extracting as much surplus value as it can from people and the planet.
  • (14) We're all in this together, says George Osborne, and with workers' wages lagging inflation, it is only fair that those who don't have to toil for a living should share in the squeeze.
  • (15) They are being squeezed, they don’t have enough of a productive economy and also taxes will slow down very, very dramatically,” said Satchu.
  • (16) 'Squeeze' with the left hand followed by 'flex' with the right elbow.
  • (17) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
  • (18) The Foundation Trust Network, which represents about 200 top hospital groups, has warned in a letter to the deputy chief executive of the NHS that, despite claims that hospitals should expect to make savings of 4% next year, in reality many have been forced to squeeze budgets by an average of 6.3%.
  • (19) But the squeeze on living standards also cited has been exacerbated by the chancellor's January VAT rise, and the Bank clearly sets little store by his much-vaunted "plan for growth".
  • (20) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.

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