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pressed

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB when ▪ A less ambitious cash-in is the Gorby blaster, above right: the head flashes red and wails when pressed . ▪ These emit a piercing shriek when pressed . ▪ She herself, when pressed , indignantly refuted ...

Usage examples of pressed.

His chief accuser, who was one of the Consuls of the year, pressed the charges of extortion with great malice.

Today, in the dark tangy-wood-scented bedroom, Ambler pinned her to the stark oak bed and pressed into herhard, hard.

Mattis pressed toward Baghdad, he was anticipating a head-on collision with the Al Nida Division, deployed south and east of the city.

I took it in both of mine and pressed the gnarled fingers back, rubbing my thumb gently over the thickened palmar aponeurosis that was trapping the tendons.

But among the crowd of friends and admirers who, coming from all parts, pressed around the little pink house, the most amazed of all was Marius, the blind cabinet-maker, unable to contain his intense delight at the sudden burning of so much incense before his idol, for to him it had seemed that this day of apotheosis would never dawn!

Louise arrived, lay down with her buttocks pressed over the back wound and applied two tongues to the healing task.

Her heavy perfume assaulted him, drowning out the appetizing odors of well-prepared food, and her denim-encased thigh pressed up right against his.

Major earnestly pressed to conduct Camilla to this coterie, assuring her Mrs.

Woodrow Wilson, in the exchange of notes which led to the armistice, had pressed for the abolition of the Hohenzollern militarist autocracy, and the Germans had seemingly obliged him, although reluctantly.

Her round breasts jutting through the purple tunic of house Barca pressed against Timon.

He pressed the firing button and a bright line of fire sped from the Carnie into the Batwing, a rope of death.

When the male bedin stepped aside to reveal me to the hizah, I clutched my robe tighter and immediately fell to my knees, bowing with my fists pressed to my forehead and my head to the white silk.

A dozen Benji warriors stood with their fierce faces pressed against the screen door, lined up along the windows.

We pressed on through the crowd, through many gates, past the paddock where the jockeys bring the horses out and parade around for a while before each race so the bettors can get a good look.

Mars pressed the same incubus upon all newcomers to her soil: a nightmare of falling, falling, falling into bottomless space.