pressing

Example Sentences

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Now, amid a national housing shortage, the question felt as pressing as ever: What if construction could harness the speed, efficiency, quality control and cost-savings of the assembly line?

From Los Angeles Times

Women—myself included—too often worry about coming off as hypochondriacs about pain or symptoms, so we just bear it without pressing for answers when our gut tells us the doctors are wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lily doesn’t understand the rules, and I’m too lazy to read the fine print, so we take turns pressing the frog’s belly.

From Literature

Rowan tried not to think of the tons of rock and earth that surrounded them, pressing down, cutting off light and air.

From Literature

It was like invisible hands were pressing against his shoulders.

From Literature