I didn't want to analyze why my heart suddenly squeezed painfully in my chest.

Back in his room, he leaned against the window frame and stared out into the moonlight, each beat of his heart squeezing painfully in his chest.

The robot's arm flashed out, his mammoth pincers clanging loudly around Derec's forearm, squeezing tightly but not painfully.

It is hard to see how the Fed could raise its own rates enough to deflate the housing bubble without painfully squeezing heavily indebted Americans.

My heart squeezed painfully, and I thought, I'm losing him.

Riker grunted as he painfully squeezed his way through the duct, following La Forge.

His heart squeezed painfully in his chest.

Barriers of denial crumbled, and his son's eye squeezed shut while all six fingers squeezed painfully into palms.

A hand painfully squeezed Alanna's heart: for a moment he sounded exactly like her willful brother.