1. The engine stalled. He pressed the accelerator hard.

2. He pressed hard on the brake but nothing happened.

3. 12 She pressed down hard on the gas pedal.

4. Pity, therefore, the hard-pressed driver of the Sauber-Mercedes.

5. You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.Sentencedict.com

6. They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room.

7. The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.

8. He pressed my hand so hard that I felt Constricted

9. For hard-pressed business people, courses will run during the weekend.

10. The clinic provides help for hard-pressed families with young children.

11. This year the airline will be hard-pressed to make a profit.

12. Hard-pressed gravediggers are burying as many as 100 people a day.

13. 22 Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.

14. Most are heavily subsidised and represent excellent value for hard-pressed school budgets.

15. 76 synonyms for Busy: active, efficient, brisk, hard-pressed, tireless, diligent, industrious, hardworking

16. I suddenly pressed the brake pedal hard and we were both thrown forward.

17. Though hard-pressed financially, they invited Joy’s elderly parents to move in with them.

18. Because of shortages, the emergency services were hard-pressed to deal with the accident.

19. Anyway, it's open secret that the government troops are very hard pressed just now.

20. The new exams will only add to the workload of already hard-pressed teachers.

21. It had an educative purpose, and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions.

22. 12. (a) What relief do the Scriptures offer to those who are hard-pressed economically?

23. Axe hacks' snacks One hard-pressed organisation seems determined to keep up its standards despite its financial problems in these hard times.

24. DUNN-PATTISON But his lips were hard pressed and his eyes became suddenly Contemptuous, then smiling.

25. Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.

26. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a business with stocked products that wouldn’t benefit from Barcoding.

27. Synonyms for Baffled include confounded, hard-pressed, nonplused, nonplussed, perplexed, bamboozled, bemused, bewildered, confused and flummoxed

28. Gorbachev must have found himself hard pressed to explain the stunning turn of events to them.

29. Well, needles to say, you'd sure be hard pressed to come up with a better Cornbread recipe

30. Adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Beaten earth has been pressed down, often by people's feet, until it is hard

31. After all, God’s people were “in sore straits,” “hard pressed,” and trembling because of their desperate situation.

32. Since then, residents have been hard-pressed to find nearby stores that offer quality products at reasonable prices.

33. Avoid alcohol and tobacco or any other drugs, also addictions which you would be hard-pressed to conquer.

34. So, delay will benefit no one and may add to the financial burdens in already hard-pressed regions.

35. The next few days could decide the fate of thousands of hard-pressed workers, home owners and firms.

36. Funding the pay rise will be more difficult and we fear that hard-pressed services will suffer further.

37. So she was hard-pressed to turn down the near constant requests to buy from those sales associates' kids.

38. The mixture of hard material powders and aluminium powders for producing dry-pressed moulded bodies is an example thereof.

39. The Beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations

40. And Shiona pressed herself against him, enthralled by the hard feel of him, her body responding to every little touch.

41. Hard cheeses are more fatty, the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds.

42. Isaiah says: “He was hard pressed, and he was letting himself be afflicted; yet he would not open his mouth.

43. Indeed, in the midst of gleaming, snorting cappuccino machines, you are hard-pressed to find a decent cup of tea.

44. Indeed, in the midst of gleaming, snorting cappuccino machines,(Sentencedict.com) you are hard-pressed to find a decent cup of tea.

45. If the economy falters in 19 corporate earnings will be hard-pressed to match the performance of the past few years.

46. 30 The Dwarfs were hard pressed at first, but eventually saw the Orcs off with the help of their formidable cannons.

47. For example, one is hard-pressed to find an example of a visionary leader who was not also adept at using language.

48. Of him it was prophesied: “He was hard pressed, and he was letting himself be afflicted; yet he would not open his mouth.

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50. A vessel bound to Nassau from one of the Blockaded ports must have been hard-pressed indeed if she could not find a refuge

51. In fact most Christians today would be hard-pressed to name a handful of the 613 commandments that form the backbone of the Torah.

52. You'd be hard-pressed to identify their positions on any relevant issue -- whether it is raising the debt ceiling or just the gasoline tax.

53. He pressed the doorbell.

54. I'm pressed for time.

55. She pressed his hand softly.

56. She pressed on the doorbell.

57. Olinthus pressed his hand joyfully.

58. They just pressed the lever.

59. He pressed my arm back.

60. “We are hard-pressed in every way, but not cramped beyond movement; we are perplexed, but not absolutely with no way out.” —2 CORINTHIANS 4:8.

61. Cider definition, the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet Cider ) or after fermentation (hard Cider ), …

62. I gingerly pressed the buzzer, embarrassed.

63. That suit ought to be pressed.

64. He pressed down on the pedal.

65. She pressed herself against the wall.

66. He pressed the lid firmly shut.

67. I inadvertently pressed the wrong button.

68. Poland pressed on with economic reform.

69. The policeman pressed him with questions.

70. Reimposing central control at a time when bills are rising to pay for new power stations and other infrastructure risks attracting the odium of a hard-pressed public.

71. An example of nearly contemporary Roman writing on the subject shows an analysis which Milton Freidman (a famous 20th century monetarist) would have been hard pressed to better.

72. Charlie pressed his nose against the window.

73. Don't scamp work because pressed for time.

74. The hostess pressed fish on her guests.

75. These emit a piercing shriek when pressed.

76. The union pressed for a superannuation scheme.

77. Exported worldwide in the 1980s and 1990s, Lada was a big foreign currency earner for the hard-pressed Soviet Union and was used in barter arrangements in some countries.

78. After reading Assemblers of Infinity you would be hard pressed to maintain the assumption that humans are the only known intelligent form of life reaching out to the stars

79. Caroline pressed Walpole for reform, largely unsuccessfully.

80. The seeds can be pressed for oil.