constricting

How To Use constricting In A Sentence

• They will kill their prey by wrapping around them and constricting or by pressing them against the burrow walls.
• he shouted, in an attempt to release the growing, constricting pressure. THE LAST RAVEN
• Also, as a marketeer I'm always looking for more money to spend - budgets can be quite constricting.
• Her work with visual art and poetry has been done in a constricting and unsupportive vacuum.
• The couple also pour cold water on the idea of constricting the Scottish Government's options with regard to income tax bands. Calman begins to unravel
• Both are constricting and reduce the flow of toxins, causing backups.
• A tight, constricting pain was setting on her heart, and it unnerved her more than anything, because she knew what it was.
• Rejecting a constricting Southern ethos, she flees to Harlem and marries Frank, a hard-drinking blues singer.
• For in constricting the notion of "value" to mean solely a given thing or notion's ability to accommodate an end forever deferred to a hypostatized future, utilitarianism's strictly instrumental concept of rationality treats a given thing as something pure and absolute, to be sure — albeit only as "absolute for an other. The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
• Men have long considered traditional marital roles ‘anemic and constricting,’ according to Real, and no longer being the sole breadwinner is a loosening of the straitjacket.