How to Use the squeeze in a Sentence

the squeeze

noun

• The city of Anna, about a 30-minute drive north of Plano, was caught in the squeeze.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Not worth the squeeze The Angels looked to scratch across an early run in the third inning.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2024
• Renters across the country are feeling the squeeze of higher prices.
  — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Jake Marisnick, pinch-running for Schoop, scored on the squeeze bunt to tie the game, 1-1, in the eighth inning.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• Emphasize the squeeze at the top of each rep, pausing briefly.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
• Pause for a beat at the top, emphasizing the squeeze to your shoulder blades.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• The first viewers to feel the squeeze from the strikes will be those who rely solely on broadcast TV.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
• But the skill has taken him years — and a fair share of explosive moments — to know the right time to speak up when the squeeze is on.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• The dip in refunds and the end of certain pandemic-era relief policies is putting the squeeze on many.
  — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
• But the squeeze on its economy, trade and firms has yet to deliver a knockout blow.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Feb. 2023
• The leads may have been cost-effective to acquire, but the juice was still never really worth the squeeze.
  — Mindful Media, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
• What sold me was the squeeze design that fills the bowl, then drains the extra water back into the bottle, so none is wasted.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• Despite all the warnings of possible doom procuring old wine at auction, the juice is worth the squeeze.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
• And the onsite ice cream shop is a godsend, stocked with all the squeeze pouches and kid snacks a young family could desire.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
• And the onsite ice cream shop is a godsend, stocked with all the squeeze pouches and kid snacks a young family could desire.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• Even Habita! is feeling the squeeze: The group’s landlord will not renew its lease, which expires next year.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Emphasize the squeeze at the top of the rep; avoid any backwards lean or shoulder movement, keeping the focus on the biceps.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
• Drugmakers are suing the government to stop the squeeze.
  — John Tozz and Nacha Cattan Bloomberg News (tns), Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023
• The concept of the squeeze bottle, as many online spectators pointed out, is not new.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2023
• The implication is that the harder the squeeze, the sweeter the juice—that there’s virtue in staring down the empty page, taming it, forcing it to give way to prose.
  — Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• Urban Heat captures the frustrations of trying to make it in a big city when rents only go up and the squeeze is put on creatives.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 24 May 2023
• There will be a frontal system approaching from the west, and the squeeze play between the front and high pressure over the Atlantic can mean the weather will not be perfect.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• The world’s biggest exchange, Binance Holdings, is feeling the squeeze.
  — Yueqi Yang, Katanga Johnson and Austin Weinstein, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Most of them say they’ve been dragged back to working for scale in a marketplace that has paid high-wattage stars record fees but put the squeeze on everyone else down the call sheet.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 July 2023
• Either way, the fact remains: Something that was free is now paid, with users and developers the ones to really feel the squeeze.
  — Matt Weinberger, Fortune, 26 June 2023
• For those who work for the government, the squeeze is easily measurable.
  — Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2020
• Providers, parents, and especially children have all felt the squeeze of this failure.
  — Nishant Pandya, STAT, 8 May 2023
• To address the squeeze, the airport recently began a $1.3 billion project to upgrade and expand its Great Hall.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• Economists say the state’s labor market remains extremely tight, though, even if some of the squeeze has eased.
  — oregonlive, 23 July 2023
• With rappers serving as brands — and in Drake and Kendrick’s case, worth hundreds of millions of dollars — the Outkast legend questions whether the juice is worth the squeeze with that much at stake in battle.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024