Examples of 'straitened' in a sentence
Meaning of "straitened"
Straitened (verb): To make something constrained or limited, usually in financial terms. This verb is used to describe the action of restricting resources or options
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- simple past tense and past participle of straiten
- squeezed or confined
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Straitened circumstances always improve a real artist.
I am finding myself in straitened circumstances because of the recession.
Straitened circumstances compelled the girls.
I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
After his passing the family was left in straitened circumstances.
His straitened circumstances obliged him to dispose of.
Prolonged illness brought on straitened circumstances.
He felt straitened in spirit until it was accomplished.
The wars have left many of us here in straitened circumstances.
And straitened times can make it easier to justify reorganisations.
The next time he meets her is in much straitened circumstances.
As by generally straitened circumstances and political crises in many countries.
So maybe they were constantly moving because of their straitened circumstances.
He has created one in straitened and another in opulent circumstances.
Other refugees are staying with host families in straitened circumstances.
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These straitened times.
My breast will be straitened.
Before straitened circumstances.
Care should be taken to avoid duplication and competition for already straitened resources.
Declaration of straitened circumstances.
Straitened economic circumstances should not impede the creation of an ambitious development agenda.
We know indeed thy breast is straitened by the things they say.
His daughter is in the hands of few Vikings or obviously straitened.
Architecture in straitened circumstances.
His mother and he and his three siblings were left in very straitened circumstances.
Any other organisation in straitened times would meet new priorities with compensating reductions elsewhere.
He spent his youth in the Antipodes in straitened circumstances.
In view of my straitened means cleanliness is the best I can offer.
When you reach my age and are, in my straitened circumstances.
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
His life was right to the end straitened on the natural side.
He is not straitened by the spirit of the age, whatever that may be.
And grieve thou not over them nor be straitened because of that which they plot.
He lives in straitened circumstances but keeps up appearances, often to a ridiculous degree.
The Corinthians were not only straitened in their affections.
Like the commencement speech, the cover letter for an academic job is a straitened genre.
That would seem in the present straitened circumstances a very pious wish.
Without access to education, this generation has little hope of escaping its straitened conditions.
Richard Cromwell subsisted in straitened circumstances after his resignation.
After splitting with mom, dad seemed to have awaken from straitened circumstances.
Norris gets into more and more straitened circumstances and has to leave Berlin.
In the second half of the 13th century the abbey was in more straitened circumstances.
It was a region in straitened circumstances, being dependent on cattle husbandry and farming.
Her parents are unofficially separated, and living in straitened circumstances.
But in these straitened times, this small knife has to be sold.
He had a " baptism to be baptized with and was straitened to get it accomplished ".
If the debtor is in straitened circumstances, then grant him respite till a time of ease.
Soon, she complained of being mistreated and living in a straitened financial situation.
In these economically straitened times that is something we can be proud of too . ".
Otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts forced into a life of aimless wandering . before straitened circumstances.
