squeeze something out of someone

Examples of squeezing

squeezing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Squeezing seven sections, comprising 23 chapters, into just over 200 pages is no mean feat.
Moreover, inflation depressed incomes, depriving manufacturers of customers for their efforts and squeezing savings that might have fostered capital growth.
The stretching and the squeezing modes are unstable for waves longer than the inner and the outer circumferences, respectively.
This implies that the two interfaces grow out of phase and thus squeeze the film fluid; hence the name squeezing mode.
The decrease is more pronounced in the squeezing mode because there is more fluid motion due to the squeezing of the annulus.
Nevertheless, it is likely that rhythmic genitalic squeezing is typical of this species.
Therefore, this term produces also a squeezing on the left and a stretching on the right at the midlevel of each vortex.
The other squeezing movements were more evenly distributed.
Both novices and expert players found the multi-user synchronous control expressive and challenging and the pulling and squeezing gestures comfortable and intuitive.
Figure 2 shows the stretching and squeezing modes.
If you keep squeezing harder and harder, at some point the seed will fly out.
One last analogy: say you have a watermelon seed and are squeezing it between your thumb and forefinger.
You don't make a louder sound by squeezing and making the air go faster.
For the existentialist, squeezing the future horizon into the here and now spells the end of self-growth.
The nuclei were discarded from the posterior end by peristaltic squeezing.
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