constricted
IPA: kʌnstrˈɪktʌd
adjective
- Narrowed, especially by application of pressure, drawn together by constriction.
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Examples of "constricted" in Sentences
- The ties were constricted.
- They constricted the timeline.
- The interpretation seems very constricted.
- The outer casing is constricted in three stages.
- Is India "constricted" because we have adopted "old standards" like HTML and Unicode?
- The prosecution lawyers objected, saying they should not be 'constricted' and that the defense would have every chance to cross-examine the witnesses anyway.
- Suddenly everything looked different, including our own personal dramas that often keep us stuck in constricted places and keep us from seeing the bigger picture.
- Afterward, though, as Wendell Berry noted in his 1975 essay, "The Specialization of Poetry," poets then receded into the fields, quads, and coffeehouses of an isolated and "constricted" art.
- The Badianus Manuscript, an indigenous herbal written in the mid-sixteenth century, recommends a strong purge for "oppression of the chest," an ailment that makes one feel "constricted" by a "certain fullness" in the chest area. 9
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