How to Use pressure in a Sentence

pressure

1 of 2 noun

• 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.
• The pressure was on for the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2023
• But pressure on both sides to cut a deal had increased.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
• He is pumped with drugs, and a pressure probe is sunk into his skull.
  — Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• Doing that puts a lot of pressure on the rest of this K-State team that can struggle to score overall.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
• The pressure on Biles going into the Tokyo Olympics was immense.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Jones had 19 pressures and a sack, Davis 23 pressures and half a sack last season.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• The scale of the problem is putting more pressure on officials to do something about it.
  — Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• President Biden ramped up the pressure on both sides last week to secure a deal.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Keep in mind that Williams yielded just one sack and six pressures in 280 pass blocking snaps over nine games.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
• Instead of just having the pressure on one person having to do it.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2023
• In a pressure campaign, the Black pastors say the support of their parishioners, key to Biden's reelection, could be on the line.
  — Devan Schwartz, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• And remember, in some ways hunting pressure isn’t a bad thing.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
• Harold, however, is feeling the pressure to tie the knot due to his limited time in Prague.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
• The mental pressures of confinement wore on the soldiers.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• The book had resonated for so many people, so the pressure of getting that right was enormous.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
• There was talk of the pressures that new migrants were putting on a health-care system that was already struggling with shortages of all kinds.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Years of drought in the West worsened by climate change have ratcheted up pressure among Western states to use less water.
  — Jacques Billeaud, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• India and Russia maintain close ties despite pressure from the West.
  — TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• Not only has he been saddled with the pressure of keeping the U.S. on top, but he’s also been asked to remake an aging team younger.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• The doctors offered an operation to relieve the pressure on his spine, but said the survival rate was low.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
• But pressure is on Fain to deliver a good deal, since his margin of victory was so slim.
  — Keith Naughton, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• Confidence: Medium High pressure is in control for much of the weekend.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Last May, the Galaxy, under heavy pressure from an unhappy fan base, sacked Klein, the team’s president for more than a decade.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• At multiple points in the video, officers are seen using their hands to place pressure onto Borisouth’s neck.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023

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pressure

2 of 2 verb

• There, the suit claims the group pressured Davis in attendance to touch one of the dancer’s breasts against her will.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• Going into Sunday’s game, the key for the 49ers was to pressure Goff.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• This would seem a reason to pressure Israel to have a cease fire for hostages.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
• Womack said his staff had been threatened in an effort to pressure him to flip his vote.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Using strong arm tactics to pressure two fans who are in the middle of what should have been a great moment?
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• Junior two-way lineman Luke Givens had three sacks as the hosts pressured the Islanders all night.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• But she's pressured to take one last adventure to rescue a young girl.
  — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2023
• This is the result of a campaign led by Arab-American activists to use the ballot box to pressure Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
• The move, pressured by recent attacks on settlers and the largest in many years, resulted in dozens of wounded.
  — Nasser Nasser and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• Freud saw the superego as a guardian that pressured the ego to resist the id’s impulses in order to fit social norms.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• It was found, however, that the releases are void because the subjects were lied to and pressured to sign them.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• The more people that engage in—and, thus, talk about—these things, the more others feel curious (at best) or pressured to join in (at worst).
  — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 21 Feb. 2024
• If your older son absolutely does not want to change his surname, do not pressure him, and hold off on the name change for the younger child.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The demonstration was credited with pressuring lawmakers and the White House to end the stand-off.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2023
• The government has pressured the platforms not to do anything.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• Some people, looking at the polling, had been quietly pressuring Lee to drop out.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• This was the Maxim and lad-mag era, where so many young female stars were being pressured into being shot in bikinis and stuff.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2023
• Nobody publicly called out the companies or pressured Turkey, the hub of the financial network, to shut it down.
  — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• According to The Athletic, Brock's parents stressed the importance of sports but didn’t pressure any of their kids to be perfect.
  — Ale Russian, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• But crappies like to move around—especially after getting pressured—this meant drilling lots of holes and doing lots of work to stay on top of them.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Feb. 2024
• Baker tried hard to pressure Shamir in the Madrid negotiations.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• One co-worker, though, leaked Levin's analysis to the press, igniting a public outcry that pressured the EPA to act.
  — Michael Phillis and Mike Stobbe The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
• The price of the commodity could be pressured by concerns on whether demand growth will persist, says ANZ analysts in a note.
  — wsj.com, 15 May 2023
• Perhaps pressuring the deep stack in this way is not optimal.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• The witness, Greg Elking, says he was pressured by law enforcement to identify Johnson as one of two men who killed Boyd.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 11 May 2023
• The hostess can choose to set them out to be consumed at the party or wait for a later time, as opposed to a decorative item that might pressure them to display in their home.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
• One of the officials tried to pressure Jim Biden to repay the money by telling him that delinquency could embarrass his brother.
  — Joshua Goodman, arkansasonline.com, 12 Nov. 2023
• In other words, the federal government will one day soon be pressured by debt markets to look not just for revenues but for savings.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024
• We won’t be pressured by Ms. Gutierrez’s attorneys or anyone else in this regard.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Directing much of its vitriol at France, the new government has pressured the French ambassador to leave and asked all of France’s 1,500 troops to depart in the coming months.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024