pressure
Example Sentences
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Beauty and personal care, a $68 billion industry, has been a relative bright spot as pressure mounts on food and nonessentials spending.
It reveals itself in patterns, in pressure points, in the way a body moves through the world.
From Salon
These shifts reflected a healthier daily pattern, with heart rate and blood pressure rising during daytime activity and falling at night during rest.
From Science Daily
After Nixon’s resignation in August 1974, Congress realized that reforms were needed to insulate the Justice Department from political pressure by the White House.
From Salon
In other sports we are having an extended conversation about Olympic pressure, and whether there’s something about Games which causes even the best to unravel at the worst possible time.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
