How to Use feel the pinch in a Sentence

feel the pinch

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  • Consumers across the board feel the pinch when its prices rise.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 May 2022
  • Yet football fans may still feel the pinch as prices are up 25% compared to last year.
    — Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Banks are pulling back on lending, and households are starting to feel the pinch.
    — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2023
  • When those programs expire, more consumers could feel the pinch.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Its rear seat is less spacious than its rivals', and adult passengers will feel the pinch.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The effort, known as a short squeeze, led to several investors who held similar shorts to feel the pinch.
    — Scott Deveau, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But until then, consumers may feel the pinch in their pocketbooks.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 June 2021
  • Atlantic County, which has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, could also feel the pinch.
    — Alison Burdo, ProPublica, 2 June 2022
  • There’s a nagging sense that as the country braces for recession and media companies see their stock prices plunge, stars could start to feel the pinch.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 July 2022
  • Nonetheless, if streamers are looking to cut back, talent reps fear that the mid- and lower-level actors will feel the pinch the most.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 21 July 2022
  • Budgets have ballooned for prestige TV, but music teams are usually the first to feel the pinch when dollars are cut.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 June 2022
  • Gibson was starting to feel the pinch of a tightening industry.
    — Elizabeth Weitzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Gibson was starting to feel the pinch of a tightening industry.
    — Elizabeth Weitzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Farmers who are inching closer to the middle class often feel the pinch of stagnating incomes most sharply.
    — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Studios, meanwhile, will feel the pinch from the Globes cancellation in a particular way this year.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • As a result, cooling inflation won't prove much solace to consumers, who can still expect to feel the pinch in their pocketbooks for a while longer.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The president’s approval ratings have fallen as consumers feel the pinch of higher prices for gas, groceries and housing.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • But even businesses that don’t directly use many vehicles feel the pinch.
    — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 14 July 2021
  • And turkeys are far from the only Thanksgiving delicacy where shoppers will feel the pinch.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Area hospitals are already beginning to feel the pinch in emergency rooms.
    — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Legitimate financial transactions will feel the pinch as large NFT nodes soak up the available space and squeeze small miners and nodes out of the most profitable workflows.
    — Mo Ghoneim, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But economists have long expected demand for Chinese goods to begin to fade as consumers in the West feel the pinch from rising prices and interest rates.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Local economies, such as San Francisco and Seattle, could feel the pinch, though many tech workers left these metro areas during the pandemic and have not returned.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • For example, if a global bank is hit by a material negative event, even contracts that settle overnight might feel the pinch.
    — Martin Jarzebowski, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • But even Dollar General and Dollar Tree, which have thrived this year as rampant inflation has helped boost sales, are starting to feel the pinch of a slowing economy.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Although the price of a box of pasta may be relatively low, the economic context in Italy means families may still feel the pinch of the increase for such a popular product.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The novel coronavirus was spreading quickly in the United States and local restaurants had begun to feel the pinch even before Michigan’s first cases were confirmed.
    — Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The Stellantis plant that produces one of the company's most important vehicles, the Ram 1500 pickup, is now among the facilities to feel the pinch of the global microchip shortage.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2021
  • Analysts had been predicting that Microsoft, which has weathered past slowdowns without massive job cuts, would feel the pinch this year.
    — Dina Bass, Matt Day, al, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Tesla After several quarters of impressive growth, Tesla is starting to feel the pinch.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 July 2022

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