How To Use Straiten In A Sentence
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In straitened circumstances we must all learn to cut our coats according to our cloths, right?
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The apartment block in which the contestants live looks utterly out of keeping with straitened times.
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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
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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
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Awards made under an extraordinarily lavish arrangement agreed by investors during less straitened times will remain intact.
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His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
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There are also ads inviting assistance placed by genteel persons in straitened circumstances.
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In these straitened times it would be a very sensible way of reducing government spending.
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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
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If these are straitened times, the newly anointed business secretary wants to do his bit.
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It is only understandable that, in straitened circumstances, people hug the thought that charity begins at home.
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Even Isabella began straitening out her blue dress.
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If these are straitened times, the newly anointed business secretary wants to do his bit.
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Sackers" like Brady – who in truth does not do a lot on JuniorApprentice but presumably got the gig for her experience of working with self-made men of vaguely scrotal appearance – are clearly going to be in increasingly high demand in these straitened times.
'Sacker' Karren Brady would never sugar the pill for Gianfranco Zola
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The family of eight was living in straitened circumstances .
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6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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he found himself in straitened circumstances
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Others who will be exempted from conscription are men doing service, and men in straitened family circumstances, on the basis of a report by the local administration and on application to the Defence Minister.
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But the neighborhood had now fallen into straitened circumstances.
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The house Anna had designated from the first as `theirs "belonged to an Italian Count whose circumstances had been straitened by the war.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Angie didn't give him time to reply as she stood up, wiping away her tears and straitening her shirt.
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She sat high, straitening her despairing posture.
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In straitened times it makes sense not only to drink less, but to drink smarter.
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He could not refuse, when he knew how straitened were the circumstances of his parents.
Vanity Fair
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Our straitened circumstances are a blessing in disguise and a chance to put that right.
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Awards made under an extraordinarily lavish arrangement agreed by investors during less straitened times will remain intact.
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Our straitened circumstances are a blessing in disguise and a chance to put that right.
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Even in those straitened times, Hilal's family was reputed to have several thousand, although the sheikh was too old to ride a camel and rarely saw them.
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I still think the staleness is there and very flattering to people who actually prefer straitened horizons.
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Prince sat, with his head bowed groundwards, and spake not to any: whereby his father knew that his breast was straitened and bade the cup-companions and men of wit relate marvellous histories, such as beseem the sessions of kings; nor was there one of them but spoke forth the goodliest of that which was with him; but Al-'Abbás still abode with his head bowed down.
Arabian nights. English
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Since it itself is only modestly profitable, the new company starts life in straitened circumstances.
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In straitened circumstances we must all learn to cut our coats according to our cloths, right?
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A woman and children have been bereaved, no doubt left behind in straitened circumstances, and it is unlikely that their grief is less real than that of any of the families of other victims of tragic accidents.
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The pullaway factor provided by the significant torque from the motor makes some accelerative exhilaration possible even in these speed-straitened times we drive in.
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The other side of this contract was a programme of social reforms that the country could ill afford in its straitened circumstances.
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Are you aware how small his means are, and of the straitened circumstances of his widow?
Vanity Fair
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In these straitened times it would be a very sensible way of reducing government spending.
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But while she enjoyed the limelight, it did little to help her straitened circumstances.
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But while she enjoyed the limelight, it did little to help her straitened circumstances.
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The club have been forced by straitened circumstances to throw in too many of their academy products too early.
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The councils won't clear them and why should they, especially in these straitened times?
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It is how a celebrity is used that has changed between the past few years of opulence and today's straitened times.
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His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
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There are some things that governments in straitened circumstances have to do, whether or not they meet the approval of the artistic and religious establishment.
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Another concern is the lack of first-team football being played by the two tyros, Darren Fletcher and James McFadden, who Scotland have been forced to place an excessive amount of faith in and pressure on in the current straitened period.
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Serge turns around to face his brothers, straitening his cape,
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See the effect of it: The breadth of the waters is straitened, that is, the waters that had spread themselves, and flowed with liberty, are congealed, benumbed, arrested, bound up in crystal fetters.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Primary school pupils mostly feel frustrated because of straitened family financial circumstances or because of problems with their teachers.
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Wendland; which, she often reflected, might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened.
Early Kings of Norway
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Because of the recent financial meltdown and the newly straitened circumstances of many Americans, certain bedrock virtues — thrift, faith, community, hard work — are enjoying a renaissance, according to John Gerzema and Michael D 'Antonio in Spend Shift.
Business
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These are terribly straitened times, and budgets across government need to be scrutinised.
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Can the country really afford such a change in these straitened economic times?
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In these straitened times, a holiday home that sits empty for much of the year is a luxury too far for many people.
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Give me a good pair of sneakers any day, she thought while straitening the red tube top Sara had somehow convinced her to wear.
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He was a writer living in straitened circumstances.
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The other fact is, that Thyri had, by inheritance or covenant, not depending on her marriage with old Burislav, considerable properties in Wendland, which she often reflected might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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There are some things that governments in straitened circumstances have to do, whether or not they meet the approval of the artistic and religious establishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are you aware how small his means are, and of the straitened circumstances of his widow?
Vanity Fair
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I was straitening my dress, and I turned around and he was gone.
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It is a straight financial calculation that a crucial support for the wider economy is now in straitened circumstances.
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The apartment block in which the contestants live looks utterly out of keeping with straitened times.
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The club have been forced by straitened circumstances to throw in too many of their academy products too early.
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Beneath the spin lay evidence of straitened times at central office.
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It had long been a Chamber priority to secure Cabinet-level representation for Waterford and this has been even more important during the last year given the straitened economic circumstances.
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He moved his family to Edinburgh, where he died, leaving his widow and four daughters in straitened circumstances.
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‘Night, partner, sweet dreams,’ she grinned, pulling away and straitening her clothes.
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Some Bulgarian families now have fewer children than they want to for various reasons, most often straitened circumstances, Belcheva said.
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Can the country really afford such a change in these straitened economic times?
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In these straitened times, it is unsurprising that he welcomed advice from outside the establishment.
A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
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With job losses and high interest rates, a lot of people are finding themselves in very straitened circumstances these days.
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So it is disappointing when one British writer who can stand up to the broad-sweeping visions of international novelists has to watch a writer of more straitened horizons take the plaudits.
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He could not refuse, when he knew how straitened were the circumstances of his parents.
Vanity Fair
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In straitened times, the logistics have not been straightforward.
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He braces himself as if under attack then straitens up and watches the plane.
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To be straitened in steps is to be no longer able to move about at will (Pr 4: 12). his own counsel -- Plans shall be the means of his fall (Job 5: 13).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The Wyoming refuseniks adapt themselves to these straitened circumstances with a mixture of stoicism, masochism and whimsy, and Proulx follows suit, particularly enjoying fantastical moments.
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These are terribly straitened times, and budgets across government need to be scrutinised.
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Kathryn seemed tight, straitened by grief, but Aubrey suspected muddy emotions beneath the surface.
THE LAST RAVEN
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It is only understandable that, in straitened circumstances, people hug the thought that charity begins at home.
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She turned around straitening the uniform jacket of the store, which was black and had the owner's name stitched in gold by the collar.
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In these straitened times, a holiday home that sits empty for much of the year is a luxury too far for many people.
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In straitened times, the logistics have not been straightforward.
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But yet I say, in an inquiry after and dijudication of truth, whatever I have been or may be straitened between different persuasions, I have [chosen], and shall rather choose, in the practice of holiness, in prayer, faith, and waiting upon God, to search the
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Unlike public museums, which can attract a measure of financial aid from the government, university museums were generally confronted with more straitened financial circumstances.
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The councils won't clear them and why should they, especially in these straitened times?
Times, Sunday Times
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Beneath the spin lay evidence of straitened times at central office.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is how a celebrity is used that has changed between the past few years of opulence and today's straitened times.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a straight financial calculation that a crucial support for the wider economy is now in straitened circumstances.
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In the duty itself is put forth no small part of the life, efficacy, and vigour of faith; and we come short of that enlargedness of spirit in dealing with God, and are straitened from walking in the breadth of his ways, which we are called unto, if we learn not ourselves to meet him with his worship in every way he is pleased to communicate himself unto us.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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In these straitened times, it is unsurprising that he welcomed advice from outside the establishment.
A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
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In straitened times it makes sense not only to drink less, but to drink smarter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which you'll find a much more straitened way of life than what I'm offering you?
