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Each vendor’s particular snail broth recipe is strictly guarded, with a pinch of this or that to set each seller apart.

If you prefer spicy kick, add a pinch more cayenne or mince a seeded jalapeño and stir it into the mixture before baking.

Her novels typically evoke this pinched sense of an era—raw individuals in raw times.

At one Broadway premiere I was sent to cover, I interviewed Elaine Stritch, who called me adorable and then pinched my butt.

Drake sold all 187 head of cattle two years ago, pinched by regulated milk prices and the rising costs of independent farming.

Then, he confessed he feared his incontinence, caused by an untreated pinched nerve in his back, would keep him from finding love.

In an era in which discretionary spending is pinched, most retailers would kill to have this kind of growth.

The waist, now less pinched in at the middle, looked longer without being really so.

As the tube is removed, it should be pinched between the fingers so as to save any fluid that may be in it.

Buchan's force, however, was continuously obtaining additions, while Bruce was getting pinched with hunger.

"Well, I think——" commenced Jack, and then broke off short, and at the same time pinched Fred's arm.

Her face was drawn and pinched, her sweet blue eyes haggard and unnatural.