To add the expense of her young cousin's board to her own would cost Miss Vi no end of self-denials, pinchings here and pinchings there, the daily frets and calculations that weigh so heavily.
God only knows how and what she suffered, not only from the neglect and desertion of her kindred; but from the stern pinchings of want.
The complaints which he had made of his mouth, lips, nose, and eyes were lessened; but he said the pain in his fundament continued, and that he still felt some pinchings in his bowels.
Throughout the siege the defenders behaved with the most heroic constancy and gallantry, although experiencing the pinchingsof famine, and exposed to the most cruel disappointments.
As far as I had an opportunity of ascertaining the facts, the farmers feel all the pinchings of distress, and the still harsher pinchings of anxiety for the future; and the labouring people are suffering in a degree not to be described.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinchings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
