straiten
Example Sentences
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For indeed, Fate full of marvel is: If fortune straiten thee one day, the next relief is nigh.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
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 William Hope Hodgson
But really when I saw so much goodness, generosity, tenderness, and real honesty, I had not the heart to accept it, for fear he should straiten himself upon my account.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Daniel Defoe
That I abandon places when I like them not, Unless Death chain the soul and straiten her career?
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
They said, "O Sir, it is long betwixt meals, and we are in a starving condition; all is good, sweet and wholesome that you deliver; but why do you so straiten us?"
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
Vocabulary lists containing straiten
Pygmalion
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Long Walk to Freedom
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"A Day's Work," Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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