straiten
Example Sentences
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I want you to consider what per cent you can pay, and not straiten yourselves too much.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Husb.—It is very kind in you, my dear, and I must always acknowledge it; but, however, I would not have you straiten yourself too much neither.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Defoe, Daniel
But yet in an hour, I did have the cloak about her, again; and so did straiten matters, as you shall conceive.
From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope
The armaments they have equipped and are equipping, and the expensive preparations for the siege of Gibraltar, straiten them exceedingly for funds.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Sparks, Jared
No law must straiten The ways they wait in, Whose spirits greaten And hearts aspire.
From More Songs From Vagabondia by Carman, Bliss
Vocabulary lists containing straiten
Pygmalion
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"A Day's Work," Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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