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squeeze - use in sentences
Object
- juice: Slice bananas and squeeze lemon juice over them, toss to ensure they are coated.
- ounce: Tho I'd hardly call the work being done to squeeze the last ounce of performance out of the mice trivial.
- quart: In effect we tried to squeeze a quart out of a pint pot.
Preposition: on
- margin: With similar price declines expected, the squeeze on profit margins looks set to continue.
Preposition: through
- boulder: At the bottom a squeeze through a boulder choke drops you at the top of a 70 feet high passage.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: Any reaction has to be squeezed out of them.
Preposition: over
- juice: Place in a bowl and sprinkle on the sugar, squeeze over the lemon juice of half a lemon and set aside.
Adjective modifier
- tight: Between Worlds Passage continues for 10m to a large step over or tight squeeze around a hole in the floor.
- awkward: To be perfectly honest, I didn't actually think we would get beyond the awkward calcite squeeze near the entrance.
- coastal: Coastal squeeze occurs where fixed sea defenses prevent the natural migration of saltmarsh inland as estuaries become subject to sea level rise.
- gentle: Some deafblind people may need a stronger indication, perhaps a gentle squeeze of the wrist, but check with them.
Modifies a noun
- stile: Follow the road round past a pond, then turn left through a parallel bar squeeze stile onto a woodland path.
Preposition: of
- lemon: Jane Grigson recommends adding chopped salad onion and a squeeze of lemon plus some more chopped herbs.
- juice: She suggests a better option may be a large glass of iced water with a squeeze of lemon juice.
Noun used with modifier
- margin: On the key issue of the alleged margin squeeze against rivals we found BSkyB to be around the borderline of anti-competitive behavior.
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