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How to use cramped in a sentence

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It is so cramped that files sit on the draining board on the small sink behind her desk.
Stretching his cramped muscles, Carson had just resolved to go to sleep himself when his eyes fell on the connector door.
I have slept little in cramped aeroplane seats and gloriously on motel beds the size of a small European farm.
The little boy, who slipped and fell so unpropitiously a few days ago, lies fretting in his bed in the cramped room.
Why have they chosen to put their lives at risk by travelling in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
Despite their humble circumstances and cramped flat, the Drakes have a snug, welcoming household.
Tom led Ace and a few other scientists and engineers to a cramped office adjoined the main nerve center.
It tries to take us beyond the yellowing net curtains of their cramped tower-block flats, and into their living-rooms and bedrooms.
In the cramped space at campaign headquarters, he was shouting urgently across a phone line to his lieutenants.
Text set solid appears cramped, with ascenders almost touching descenders from the previous line.
Found in a cramped spider hole, the once powerful president of Iraq was reduced to an unkempt figure, lonely, weak and defeated.
Hounded by petty bureaucrats out of his cramped offices on Calton Hill, art world legend Demarco has again landed on his feet.
I sat cramped next to a burly fellow who obviously had a lot of faith in the medicinal qualities of garlic.
We sat hunched in the cramped cabin space like creatures packed and voyaging through the unknown.
The physics of the venue make for an intimate and busy, buzzy atmosphere and, let's face it, a rather cramped stage.
Such attire is all right in its place, but not in the cramped, claustrophobic conditions of an aircraft cabin.
In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness.
He paces the bow, cramped as it is, like the caged ocelot or the little peccary leashed to a cleat.
They spend most of the year cramped in dark, often odorous conditions, carrying the full weight of our bodies.
Since the included stereo track also sounds relatively cramped and subdued, optional subtitles should have been included.
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Examples from Classical Literature
That the progress of philosophy has hardened Browning's heart to accesses of passion, or cramped his creative imagination?
The wind whipped and wore them, the AHL cramped their roots, and they died.
I felt all cramped and muggy, and as the day was fine, biked over to the aerodrome.
It is in a small, cramped hand, and you know the one purporting to be from him later was in a big, sprawly hand.
The sails were lowered and they went ashore to stretch their legs, for sitting on the iceboat rather cramped them.
He evidently recognised the cramped, ill-formed hand in which it was addressed.
I remember leaning down and trying to pull him out of his cramped position, and then came an eternity of stargazing.
The barge described in this book, though one is not conscious of being cramped inside her, is only a ninety tonner.
His powers were cramped by the fetters of metre, and his attempts to versify even rich thought and deep feeling were puerile.
From time to time he glances from the cramped Greek text to the noble, weatherworn towers of his cathedral.
After crouching cramped and benumbed in the canoe, poulticed in wet or damp clothing night and day, my limbs had been asleep.
You may be a bit cramped by the morning, and perhaps you may get a twinge of rheumatics, but that'll be all.
The characters are in cramped Romaic Greek, the paper is yellow, the ink faded with age.
It presents us with a cramped, dwarfish, and childish conception of Deity.
Instead of acting as a tonic on the individual Scot, it cramped him in a tetanic rigor.
You cramped yourself into it, if it were a question of cramping.
The next morning Stephen rose stiff and cramped from his denuded bed.
That would be something, better at least than a lifetime of the cramped and cloying restrictions of civilization.
The rooms were low and cramped, and had a mouldy, disused smell in them.
Even where he was, Shere Khan's shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man's would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
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