How To Use straiten In A Sentence
- In straitened circumstances we must all learn to cut our coats according to our cloths, right? Times, Sunday Times
- The apartment block in which the contestants live looks utterly out of keeping with straitened times. Times, Sunday Times
- Then she called her handmaid and said to her, Go to Shajarat al-Durr and say to her, Thy sister saluteth thee and biddeth thee to her; so favour her by coming to her this night, according to thy custom, for her breast is straitened. ' Arabian nights. English
- He is still a little straitened, a little pestered by the doubting and critical optics which our time turns upon man, a little victimized by his knowledge of limitary conditions and secondary laws. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
- Awards made under an extraordinarily lavish arrangement agreed by investors during less straitened times will remain intact. Times, Sunday Times
- His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
- There are also ads inviting assistance placed by genteel persons in straitened circumstances.
- In these straitened times it would be a very sensible way of reducing government spending. Times, Sunday Times
- Indeed, emaciation hath wasted my frame and my tears a torrent became mountains and plains are straitened upon me for grame and of the excess of my distress, I go saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- If these are straitened times, the newly anointed business secretary wants to do his bit. Times, Sunday Times
