How To Use Cramp In A Sentence

This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches.
‘There were many times when I felt faint at matches because of menstrual cramps,’ Susan says.
But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
Because today's a public holiday, Sunday night was without that familiar cramp in the neck from thinking about Monday's workload, even though I actually have to work later in the arvo today.
The cramps possibly were a side effect of a pulled muscle suffered in winter ball last year.

Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
Is adebayor back tomorrow? is rsc injured again after going off or what is just "cramp"? id keep the same side as fulham but id rest vieria and play de jong and bring adebayor in for rsc if he is injured! if rsc is fit, and keep with him, because he wins far more balls in the air than adebayor. Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
Calderon sat out the final quarter with what he called a hamstring cramp in Wednesday's loss to the Sixers in Philadelphia. Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
Native Americans have long used cramp bark, an aptly named antispasmodic herb, to relieve menstrual cramps.
We sit cramped up at a desk and breathe little shallow breaths with the top of our lungs. Repetitive Strain Injury
He stood up, stretching limbs that had become stiff from the cramped surroundings.
(Anger's poisonous energy is intensified in cramped spaces). Judith Orloff MD: How to Cope with Personal Space Intruders (VIDEO)
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Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
She frequently had abdominal pain and cramping, hard stools, and rectal pain and pressure.
So does she not feel at all claustrophobic and cramped? Times, Sunday Times
My initial concerns with the cramped interior of the car were alleviated a little by its good road manners.
While you're slaving over the code, cramping your thumb on your trackball, and squinting your eyes at the pixels, remember what it is you are doing this for, and never ever forget.
While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
February 4th, 2009 at 4: 24 pm it drives me nuts when women say "contractions aren't that bad, they're just like bad cramps" …. please. i'm happy for women who experience relatively fast, "crampy" labours, but i think the reality for most women is a little more intense …. maybe it's just me? who knows? Celebrity Baby Blog
I groaned in pure bliss, feeling the countless muscles that cramped when I slept in the Shadow Hall start to relax.
The room's alcoves ensure that plenty of storage units could be installed without creating a cramped feeling.
Often caused by a hormonal imbalance, menstrual cramps are common in teenagers and young women.
Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress.
He began to spasm from cramps at the end of a 90-minute practice.
The carcinoid syndrome is classically described as flushing, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps, but borborygmi, cyanosis, telangiectasis, pellagra like skin lesions, wheezing, dypsnea or palpitations may also occur.
They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
He would sometimes suffer from writer 's cramp, which he would treat with a bucket of ice or bag of frozen peas on his wrist. Times, Sunday Times
Muscle cramps often happen when you exercise in hot weather.
When fighting out an epic duel with Courier in the Australian Open a few years ago Sampras appeared on the verge of collapse from cramp.
When you feel bloated, cranky, pimply and crampy on a monthly basis, it's tough to be all that grateful.
Professor Weiss, a psychologist at Jena University, believes the brain quickly learns to connect words like 'crampy' and 'nipping' with sensations of pain. Home | Mail Online
In a cramped conference room known as the "submarine" inside the fortresslike New York Fed, more than a dozen employees who constituted the institution's AIG task force were working marathon days, crammed elbow to elbow around a long wooden conference table. AIG, a symbol of financial crisis, repays bailout loan and finds new foothold
The big complaints are delays and cancellations, cramped seating, and overall poor in-flight service.
He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
She had to limp through the final stages of the epic encounter, warding off cramp.
No. 12 Marat Safin outlasted Andrew Ilie, who trailed 5-0 in the fifth set when he retired because of cramping. Agassi, Kournikova out in second round
Everyone knows about calf cramps, but these muscle spasms can cause trouble elsewhere - such as your hand. The Sun
The physics of the venue make for an intimate and busy, buzzy atmosphere and, let's face it, a rather cramped stage.
Beginners are often plagued by this cramp, which strikes like a boxer's body blow and happens when an overworked diaphragm begins to spasm.
In real life, my family and I were shuffled off to a cramped, airless, plasticky holding area and offered cheap pastries and instant coffee.
I never expected that to happen because I'm not a big cramper, said McCargo, selected 26th overall out of North Carolina State. USATODAY.com - Notes: Falcons' Finneran out for year; Titans lose Long; Nall out a while
It is effective as an antispasmodic for muscle cramps, stiffness, aches, overuse, sprains, bruises, sciatica, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia and poor circulation.
The lady was blue, and in great pain from cramp, and the poor unweaned infant was roaring for the nourishment which had failed. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
I walked up and down the aisle to stretch my cramped muscles.
My arm muscles were cramped up and felt like they were made of lead, my eyes were swelling and my cheeks felt puffy and warm.
There are, of course, more conventional walks that don't involve the donning of crampons.
Since the included stereo track also sounds relatively cramped and subdued, optional subtitles should have been included.
The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack squatter slum.
The ubiquitous pyramid is poorly used, cramping the main action in an unlit area upstage.
The kitchenette was cramped and equipped with basic culinary utensils.
Our tents are filled with clothes, down jackets, sleeping bags, woollen gloves and socks, snow boots, and tonnes of packed cream - sun-block, moisturiser, lip balm and cleanser - as well as the routine climbing paraphernalia of ropes, crampons, harnesses, descendeurs and carabiners.
The film reiterates this distinction between worlds by directly contrasting the aquamarines, open sky and searing light of Spain with the cold, wet and overbearingly cramped world of London.
The foyer felt a little cramped with quite low ceilings in areas. Times, Sunday Times
Hounded by petty bureaucrats out of his cramped offices on Calton Hill, art world legend Demarco has again landed on his feet.
Results of infection by common bacteria such as salmonella, campylobacter and listeria can include vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhoea, or even death.
She recommends taking the medicine with food at the first sign of cramping or nausea.
She would be able to stretch out her cramped limbs and rest for a few hours.
Social change and political challenges divided Afrikaner verligtes (the enlightened) from verkramptes (cramped conservatives).
Better signs of calcium deficiency are muscle twitching and cramps. Times, Sunday Times
In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness.
She started getting stomach cramps this morning.
This is one idea that seems eminently transferable to the average cramped terraced home. Times, Sunday Times
It's also one of its most appealingly credible aspects, as is the gritty atmosphere: the subway scenes with their up-close-and-personal contacts with strangers, the cramped tenement that's home to one of the girls. The Rich, the Bad, the Vengeful
My last appointment of the week was a new patient presenting with menstrual cramps.
Midway through the fourth lap, I began to develop stomach cramps.
There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.
I was suffering from terrible stomach cramps and in imminent danger of letting go at either end. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
As they often occupy cramped sites, London Board schools are usually multi-storey buildings.
Thanks to Isla's rapid success, the narrow, 55-seat L-shaped room already feels cramped, and the music is so loud and infectious that you resent the lack of enough room to rumba.
Having said that, this overlap is an extraordinary style-cramper in terms of my writing. Archive 2009-09-01
We sat hunched in the cramped cabin space like creatures packed and voyaging through the unknown.
Less common applications include muscular and uterine cramping, nervous headache, and as a gastrointestinal carminative.
The keyboard has been described as slightly cramped and the trackpad "titchy," so this maybe more suited to those with smaller hands. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
I sprinted toward the bus, my cramped muscles protesting every movement.
Now that it is snow-covered, it is great crampon mixed rock-ice training. Interview with Cindy Abbott: Climbing Against Time « Climber &Laquo; Everest 2010 « Mt. Everest 2010 Season Coverage
She sits in this cramped, dim space for eight hours a day sorting mail.
He had a broad and generous, rather than a cramped and niggardly, view of the law and its functions.
The trailer was cramped and had no furniture except for a mattress and a wooden bench.
She would be able to stretch out her cramped limbs and rest for a few hours.
Marissa experienced cramping with ovulation—especially when she ovulated on the left side—that seemed to increase as she approached perimenopause. Wild Feminine
They stood close together in the cramped space, and he spoke softly in the remembered sibilant voice. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
He had forgotten, too, the crampiness of its temper since that glacial bath, and, most completely of all, had he forgotten the fate of the man-who-didn't - take-care-of-himself. The Window-Gazer
In occupation neuroses, other than those produced by the use of the pen, pain, weakness, and numbness are at least equally prominent, and even in writer's cramp the "neuralgic" form is common. Why Worry?
If you tend to be susceptible to cramps, try eating more foods that are high in potassium and calcium.
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well regulated ones. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The chapel was lofty, cramped and stonily cold, but its austerity had been tempered a little by draping the walls with thick woollen hangings, and curtaining the inner side of the door. A River So Long
But being cramped can increase the risk of deep vein thrombosis. The Sun
New Zealand students designed the "Plant Room", an attachable box that bolts on to the exterior of an apartment building, providing cramped city-dwellers an area ... 'Plant Room' Attaches To Apartments For Green Living (VIDEO)
But sometime in the past 40 years, Western society decided that deferential, ordered and conformist societies cramped creativity and personal expression.
Wilshere's open, flowing italics tightened, his hand cramped on the page. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
He eventually received a stack of complaints about adverse reactions, including cramps, nausea, heart palpitations, and severe diarrhea.
A more pleasant-tasting tea can be brewed from equal amounts of meadowsweet, wintergreen and cramp bark.
Clinical symptoms are related to hypokalemia and hypertension, and may include weakness, paresthesias, cramps, tetany, fatigue, headache, and visual disturbances.
It was nothing extraordinary; only a knee-high circular table with four surrounding stools occupied the dusty, cramped space.
He could have coped a lot better were it not for the accompanying stomach cramps and cold sweat - there was enough damp in the room without his contributing to it.
I was going to say something about how the lead singer of the Cramps, Lux Interior, was doing the most disgusting stuff imaginable, but I'll refrain, as I just learned that Lux died in February of an aortic dissection, which is the same heart problem that also took John Ritter's life. September 2009
Forced together in cramped and uncomfortable evacuation centres, there was little of the visible despair and grief which one would expect. Times, Sunday Times
Naprelan is a non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug used to relieve mild to moderate pain and menstrual cramps.
Nocturnal head banging, sleep talking and nocturnal leg cramps are other rare forms of parasomnia.
Flexing my cramped limbs and wiggling my toes, I luxuriated in my undisciplined stance. Exit the Actress
I walked slowly, flexing my cramped and abused muscles, trying to restore circulation, and taking in my surroundings at the same time.
His muscles cramped so severely he had to stop playing.
I stare as the lettuce bottoms out into the belly of the bar, disappearing into the basement below, where an invisible chef will labor in cramped quarters for the lunch crowd that arrives at noon. Cafés
Story-writers have nearly always been the foes of maps, finding in them a kind of cramping of their mental legs. Journeys to Bagdad
Before breaking camp at the base of the Root, your guide will give you pointers on crampon use and safe route-finding.
Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
Be it menstrual cramps or back pain, arthritis or migraine, acupuncturists claim to fix it all.
Rear seats are cramped, boot space is compromised and the bulging rear end gives them a bad case of steatopygia eh? Car review: VW Golf Cabriolet
He lunges at the open window, hurling his strawberry milkshake in a cramped overarm throw.
Pongau and thousands of men were herded together in cramped conditions, but instead of being sent on they were left unguarded as, amazingly, the guards had all left. Work Camp 1768 L
When skiing downhill the bindings are locked, and skins and crampons removed.
Sullivan, who missed nearly two seasons and needed two surgeries on his back, missed a couple of shifts in the second period with what Nashville coach Barry Trotz called a cramp in his calf. USATODAY.com
Many sufferers have no symptoms at all until they get painful cramps in the calf muscles. The Sun
Thouron stood and murmured a respectful greeting, then removed the other papers from the single vacant chair in the cramped and fuggy room, feeling Laboughe's simmering eyes on him. Sepulchre
Barely breathing now, I moved my feet up, scrabbling my crampon points across the verglas. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
Stowed below deck with 1,600 other PoWs, he was forced to exist in a space so cramped they had to lie down to sleep in relays.
While some traditional herbs are not suitable for regular use due to their excessively strong purgative effects, ColoFlush uses herbs that are strong enough to support flushing out of the colon, yet gentle enough not to cause a loose, 'crampy' stomach. Wil's Ebay E-Store
Her muscles felt cramped from non use and unable to cooperate with her numb body.
The absence of any upper-abdominal pain, nausea, and cramps suggests that the melena is of cecal or right colonic origin.
Many sufferers have no symptoms at all until they get painful cramps in the calf muscles. The Sun
Effects These only occur when excessively large quantities are consumed and can include nausea, flatulence and abdominal cramps. E For Additives
Thus I lightly shift my body into diverse phases, and am beheld in varying wise; for changefully now cramped stiffness draws in my limbs, now the virtue of my tall body unfolds them, and suffers them to touch the cloud-tops. The Danish History, Books I-IX
On three of my assignments (one involving 48 hours in a very cramped "pillbox" watchtower), the commanding officers were 19-year-old girls. JPost Headlines
A drug called colchicine sometimes is used, but it tends to cause unpleasant side effects (nausea, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea) in about Undefined
Among the many legit reasons for doing so, I realized that I'd pretty much convinced myself being with him cramped my creativity.
In fact, my arms were spasming with cramps by the time I got home.
Those in the back seat explored levels of cramp unfathomable before this trip.
Better signs of calcium deficiency are muscle twitching and cramps. Times, Sunday Times
It will break the daily monotony of riding on cramped and airless trains.
Since the former first school was extended under the re-organisation, outdoor space for the youngsters has been cramped.
The houses are small, cramped dingily together, with fringes of grass, old-fashioned blooms and rusty chain-link fences dividing the yards.
The writing on the back of the card was cramped but scrupulously neat.
We sit cramped up at a desk and breathe little shallow breaths with the top of our lungs. Repetitive Strain Injury
The British Herbal Pharmacopoeia recommends calamint for nervous and digestive complaints, menstrual pains, colds, chills and cramps; it has specific application in cases of infantile flatulent colic.
The crowded house is going to get a little less cramped and that means a better view of the action. The Sun
A second family is also followed as they try to expand their cramped 1960s house. Times, Sunday Times
Ibuprofen is helpful for menstrual cramps and pain from inflammation (such as muscle sprains).
Heat exhaustion may have been complicated in Radcliffe's case by heat cramp.
He cooked for himself in the cramped kitchen.
For secondary dysmenorrhea, managing your cramps involves treating the underlying cause.
Also known as viral gastro-enteritis, it causes vomiting, headaches, abdominal cramps and sometimes diarrhoea.
They lived in cramped rooms above the tiny clinics in the slums, often afraid to go out after dark because of the rampant crime. Times, Sunday Times
It is an unsettling contrast to the existing grain of Tokyo's confused, chaotic yet intensely busy and cramped character.
The stairwell was on the cramped side for Bahzell, and the risers ' height had been planned for people with legs much shorter than his.
During your period, you may have cramps or pain in your stomach or back.
In the cramped bathroom, there's a deep free-standing bath with green stains around the plughole. CHAMELEON
Many boards meet in cramped, uncomfortable, or poorly lit rooms. Christianity Today
By the time she reached the bathroom she was hemorrhaging and the cramps had overtaken her so that he had to grab her before she fell.
Some people also complain of tension headaches, stomach cramps and of having to get up repeatedly at night to pass urine.
These do not appear on the Rochdale posters on this occasion so that information is not cramped.
The play's opening scene presents life in the cramped stokehole, where ‘the ceiling crushes down on the men's heads’ and the attitudes of the stooping, proto-simian workers suggest beasts in a cage, ‘imprisoned by white steel.’
The other Jeep was cramped with five people and cargo.
The bug causes diarrhoea, stomach cramps and fever and can be fatal to babies, the old and the sick.
When you have a leg cramp, relax the muscle through gentle massage, or heat the muscle with a warm towel or hot water bottle.
For people who have been cramped into buses for 12 hours or more, few irritations are worse than discovering there is no hot shower or bed at the end of the trek.
The cramped room was dark and gloomy, a faint stream of gentle light streaming through the grimy window.
Legs cramped from running, I slumped down onto the floor and burst into tears.
She sat up slowly, stretching her sore, cramped muscles.
At their cramped concrete home, Idris' family described her as a cheerful but sometimes hot-tempered woman who had no overt ties to any militant groups.
Apparently, they've all been moved to a basement "warren" called "Cubicle City," where the conditions are cramped and crowded and despairing, like life on board the Battlestar Galactica: Ousted Legislators Sent To Gloomy Basement 'Cubicle City'
You rather want to escape with her from this cramped, quarrelsome little world. Times, Sunday Times
He gets headaches, stomach cramps, and palpitations. The Sun
Tighter trade restrictions might cramp economic growth.
Boot soles are chevroned for hiking and accept crampons for climbing up icy chutes.
An ankle strap will prevent the heel lever being released or the crampon being lost should it become disconnected from the boot.
An increasingly common problem is rusting to the iron cramps used to hold masonry together in Victorian spires. Times, Sunday Times
If any of you have seen an MRI tube, they tend to be small and cramped, difficult for claustrophobics to handle, and a tight enough squeeze for one person, let alone two.
He stretched his muscles, cramped from lying on the floor, and then looked about for the stone he had used the night before.
This essential oil is often used for female complaints, such as PMS, menstrual cramps and menopause.
It was a rather cramped affair, too, since a horde of schoolboy cricketers had found their way in. Times, Sunday Times
Getting to his feet, he stretched his cramped muscles and sighed in contentment, feeling quite full.
He called for the trainer to massage his left calf for apparent cramps twice during changeovers early in the fourth set and was clearly favoring it but worked through the pain. Nadal knocks off Verdasco in exhausting Australian semifinal
Chamomile tea has been seen as a medicinal cure-all for centuries, but only now have UK researchers found evidence that the herbal tea has real benefits in a wide range of health ailments from the common cold to menstrual cramps.
She'd been holding this thing within her for so long her muscles were cramping.
In any case, Lucy's claims that she'd escaped detection for three years in cramped quarters occupied by 450 men, where the toilets were a couple of open-air perches at the ship's beakhead, and where the regulations of the day required all Marines to strip, bathe, and dress in the presence of a commanding officer responsible for checking frequently on their physical condition, were patently ridiculous. Countdown
I crawled out cold, cramped, and feeling sick - to a world that seemed to have disappeared altogether.
They spend most of the year cramped in dark, often odorous conditions, carrying the full weight of our bodies.
At first, it all seemed standard: boots fitted with spiky crampons, full-body harnesses, prusik slings, day-packs, assorted carabiners, coils of rope, medical sensors .... Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Other features include fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and, less commonly, skin rashes.
She must get face cramp from smiling so much. Times, Sunday Times
Then do some cramp chaines cramp rolls while doing chaine turns Feet not happy, just cold. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
By the time I was done, I had ink blotches on my skin, and my hands and wrists were cramped.
Shifting from one cramped position to another, she caught a glimpse of Malcolm, looking very princely in his crown and royal robes.
Just look for the tractor trailer with its hazard lights flashing, parked in the middle of the street as it waits to jockey into position in the plant's cramped parking lot.
I had slept cramped up on a wooden floor, and my whole body was now stiff.
Her stomach cramped sharply, and she wobbled dizzily. Crimson Wind
It was too cramped up in the trunk, really, so I was glad when we could get out.
The snow underfoot is hard and crystalline, and grates beneath my crampons with a sound of metal on metal.
Along with her family she moves to increasingly cramped quarters, suffering heartache and death.
“When women hear the word menstrual, they tend to think cramps and discomfort,” says our resident (female) PhD of the hour, quoted in the magazine. ProWomanProLife » When pregnancy comes as a big surprise
Both children and parents alike are happier getting whisked off to summer camps and holiday getaways, far from the cramped confines of the city.
IUI, which is a slightly more invasive and more expensive procedure—and which may also cause some cramping—appears to have higher success rates than ICI. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
These muscles, weakened by disease because of tight clothing and corset steels, and also by cramped positions in school or at work, refuse to hold the body erect, and it "lops" just at this point. What a Young Woman Ought to Know
Now she lifted herself up to shake out her cramped muscles, and went in search of her backpack and something to eat.
He catches the cramped, grotty frisson of the reporters' room, the professionalism instilled by hard-nosed old hands in the game, the lure of the bars in Vulcan Lane when the final edition had been put to bed.
The room was cramped and its furnishings old, but clean and simple. ROUGH JUSTICE
She didn't even try to protest as all her muscles cramped up.
He was shifting his cramped attitude a little -- a very little -- for about the twentieth time, when a smur of colour showed on the mirror, and the next instant passed into a dark shadow. Corporal Sam and Other Stories

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