How to Use pressure in a Sentence
- Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
- The fruit yields to gentle pressure when it's ripe.
- The horse will respond to the slightest pressure of a rider's knee.
- He gave in to the social pressures to act and dress like everybody else.
- She felt a constant pressure to earn more money.
- The animal's jaws can exert a pressure of more than 750 pounds per square inch.
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There was a lot of pressure on me.
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Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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The pressure is backed by force.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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What if there’s no pressure on you?
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Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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There’s a lot of stress and pressure.
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Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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And pressure doesn’t faze him at all.
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Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Nov. 2025
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There’s no one who loves pressure more than me.
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Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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There's pressure that comes with that.
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Ren Clayton,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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That’s putting pressure on folks to get a job.
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Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
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That’s helped ease some of the pressure on bond yields.
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ABC News,
25 June 2026
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With that there’s a huge amount of pressure, though.
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Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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The team does not have an ace and may feel pressure to add one.
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Aaliyan Mohammed,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Knicks have the pressure on them big time right now.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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On the one hand, there is the pressure relief of foam.
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Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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On both sides are areas of low pressure.
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Brandi D. Addison,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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But the pressure that comes with it is something else.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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British pubs face closures as cost pressures rise.
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Ian King,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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That balance comes from a pressure bomb.
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Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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Trump arrives with pressures of his own.
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Vivian Salama,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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That pressure flings some of the hot gas outward in the form of a wind.
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Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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He is pumped with drugs, and a pressure probe is sunk into his skull.
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Oliver Broudy,
Men's Health,
17 Aug. 2023
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This team knows how to flip a switch and dig in when the pressure rises.
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Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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That’s a lot of pressure — for anyone.
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Mirin Fader,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Feeling the pressures of the world?
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Usa Today,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
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Yet some near-term pressures remain.
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Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2026
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What should pressure him is the fact that rates are far too high.
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Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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He was pressured on just two of those dropbacks.
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Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Or maybe he’s getting pressured to not look soft.
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Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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Read on for tips about how to pressure wash siding and when not to.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
22 May 2026
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Scammers may pressure you to act.
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ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Powell said the probe is a ploy to pressure him to lower rates.
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Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2026
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His opponent pressured him, tired him out and knocked him out.
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Brett Appley,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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But Liu said she isn't feeling pressured.
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Sharyn Alfonsi,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Don’t pressure yourself; just pick something that sounds fun and do that.
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Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 2026
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Don’t pressure yourself to have all the answers.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
19 June 2026
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Next, pressure him to go to therapy.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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Recently, the ex has been pressuring her to move back in with him.
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Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Don’t let doubts pressure you into silence.
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Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Feb. 2026
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But she's pressured to take one last adventure to rescue a young girl.
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Michael Stillwell,
Town & Country,
9 Sep. 2023
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This would seem a reason to pressure Israel to have a cease fire for hostages.
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Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
29 Nov. 2023
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Womack said his staff had been threatened in an effort to pressure him to flip his vote.
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Erin B. Logan,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct. 2023
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Drivers also told us they were being pressured to drive more hours with less sleep.
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Ashley Velie,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Trump publicly pressured the Fed chair for months and even threatened to fire him.
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Greg Iacurci,jessica Dickler,
CNBC,
12 Jan. 2026
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Scott has blitzed on 36 plays and has pressured the quarterback on eight of them.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Make space for your child’s feelings without pressuring them to open up.
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wendy Wisner,
Parents,
11 Apr. 2026
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But that group was one of the worst in the league in pressuring the passer and stopping the run.
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Kevin Fishbain,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Even so, her grandmother never pressured her to wear the dress.
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Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
23 June 2026
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Both countries pressured Hamas to accept the peace plan.
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Michele Chabin,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Oct. 2025
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In essence, a way of pressuring the companies to act.
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Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2026
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Don’t let your friends pressure you into a decision.
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Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Noah pressures her to choose him and accuses her of being a gold digger in the process.
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Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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Margins will be pressured by higher memory prices, but they might be passed on.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 May 2026
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The people who do know about it (and who pressured theaters to book it) are his audience.
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Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
14 Jan. 2026
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Trump is pressuring countries to help reopen it.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
16 Mar. 2026
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Recently, Maron’s ex has been pressuring her to move back in with him.
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Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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