straitened

Example Sentences

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Alfie may never realize his romantic fantasies, but his Romanticism transcends his straitened horizons.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

But merchants and analysts said the dollarization boost has proven insufficient in the face of limited credit, a depreciating local currency, higher taxes, straitened public spending amid lower oil income, and rising utility bills.

From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023

Indeed, the fans are only now starting to get used to the USA's new straitened circumstances.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2023

But that doesn’t mean an economically straitened Britain won’t throw an extravagant party as it crowns its first king in seven decades in May.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2023

There Glenn was raised in permanently straitened means, for his father never again found steady work.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik