constriction
Example Sentences
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Once activated, this process leads to airway constriction in people with asthma.
From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026
For almost five years, the entertainment industry has been beset, first by the pandemic, then by the writers’ and actors’ strikes and the constriction that followed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025
The introduction of Turner somewhat cushions that constriction, but more so by the sights of Ellis-Taylor’s remarkable Hattie.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024
Yet their lives are hemmed in by the men around them, with a constriction that’s suffocating.
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024
His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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