constricting

How To Use constricting In A Sentence

• A hormone secreted by the adrenal gland that raises blood pressure by constricting arteries and increasing heart rate.
• The use of hand-held camera and jump-cut editing, combined with the ever-constricting sense of disaster in the story line, creates a doom-laden mood that is very sad and disturbing and ultimately moving.
• Her tension was contagious; Richard could feel it constricting his muscles, eroding his composure. HERE BE DRAGONS
• It's like my throat is constricting or my lungs aren't working.
• Polar cold may be less constricting than other factors, for example aridity or intense seasonality, that characterize polar regions.
• The snakes also twist while constricting, in order to break the backs of their unfortunate prey.
• The bodice was constricting like a corset that gave lift to my bosom, but thankfully I could still breathe.
• Fathers in this piece are "constricting" influences on their daughters. MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
• For in constricting the notion of "value" to mean solely a given thing or notion's ability to accommodate an end forever deferred to a hypostatized future, utilitarianism's strictly instrumental concept of rationality treats a given thing as something pure and absolute, to be sure — albeit only as "absolute for an other. The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
• What you had always done was to entomb your inner personal centre within the constricting straitjacket of certain words and formulae.