How To Use Cramped In A Sentence

The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
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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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 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.
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.
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.
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
The physics of the venue make for an intimate and busy, buzzy atmosphere and, let's face it, a rather cramped stage.
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 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.
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 kitchenette was cramped and equipped with basic culinary utensils.
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.
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).
In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness.
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
There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.
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.
We sat hunched in the cramped cabin space like creatures packed and voyaging through the unknown.
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.
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.
They stood close together in the cramped space, and he spoke softly in the remembered sibilant voice. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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
It was nothing extraordinary; only a knee-high circular table with four surrounding stools occupied the dusty, cramped space.
Forced together in cramped and uncomfortable evacuation centres, there was little of the visible despair and grief which one would expect. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
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
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.
Her muscles felt cramped from non use and unable to cooperate with her numb body.
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
Among the many legit reasons for doing so, I realized that I'd pretty much convinced myself being with him cramped my creativity.
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 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
He cooked for himself in the cramped kitchen.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Along with her family she moves to increasingly cramped quarters, suffering heartache and death.
Both children and parents alike are happier getting whisked off to summer camps and holiday getaways, far from the cramped confines of the city.
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
Holding her free arm against her cramped side, she struggled to regain control of herself.
The school has been housed in cramped and poorly ventilated portables for several years and was eagerly anticipating a permanent location.
For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.
Her shop and cafe looks like the sort of cramped, slightly chaotic set-up you might stumble across in a village post office, but the food from £3.50 is well-travelled, cosmopolitan stuff. South London's top 10 budget eats
A cramped sun porch wrapped in jalousie windows, sparsely furnished. Learning to Die in Miami
This was a much better set-up than our original arrangement where we were all cramped into a very small room near the gymnasium. Broken Lives
Under the sideboard stands a cellaret that looks as if it held half a bottle of currant wine, and a shivering plate-warmer that never could get any comfort out of the wretched old cramped grate yonder. Mens Wives
The other 11 rooms are a bit cramped, though have the same sumptuous fabrics and comfort levels as public rooms.
He said his extended family had been living together in a terraced house in Bradford since 1964 and they now wanted to move out of cramped living conditions and move into a more spacious home where their family could continue to grow.
They set out a kind of alfresco area under the trees, since none of them really wanted to be inside, and at any rate, Alberichs little sitting room would have been horribly cramped with all of them crammed into it. Exile's Valor
That so many exist in Manhattan's cramped quarters mystifies me: they present themselves at every corner. Millie Kerr: Unwritten Urban Rules -- The Pet Edition
Three loose-limbed models slink into the cramped conference room next to his headquarters.
Cramped in the tank for 36 hours at a time, he and a gunner, radio operator and Commander helped to hold a bridge outside the town.
Not wanting to be completely outdone, the men hurried uneasily after her and crowded into the cramped space of the dank cave.
Then I squirmed out of my cramped bed and wrig - gled snakewise to the right; once behind brush, I got to my feet, my dart gun drawn. Three Against The Witch World
Their leg muscles felt cramped and pained when they all stood up.
The room was cramped and its furnishings old, but clean and simple. ROUGH JUSTICE
The stars will spend up to three weeks in the cramped house. The Sun
The sport gives no reward for showmanship, which is the backbone of drifting with its squealing, rubber-burning maneuvers around tight turns and cramped spaces. Starbulletin Headlines
In the Clipper era, there were no cramped or massed rows of seats so common aboard today's jet airliners.
While the large vessel looked imposing from the outside, the interior was actually cramped. DELUGE (Part 29) – Brian Keene
With two students to a room, the 50 grads will have more room for their research than they did in their previous cramped offices across campus.
The peeling paintwork and cramped classrooms of his own school show just how little investment has been coming his way so far. Times, Sunday Times
The cramped cube filled with sharp-edged reversible furniture would certainly reduce anyone's desire to own property.
You had to contend with all the challenges of living in cramped spaces with 32 people. Chilean miner Edison Pena, take me to Graceland!
That ties into my main feeling that the layout feels cramped and a little claustrophobic. Times, Sunday Times
Usually this ends up being a cramped, scribbled list, and hard to understand.
The two of us were cramped in the telephone booth.
The modest building houses a cramped collection of thousands of artifacts that collectively serve to sustain the history of the cryptologic profession. Karen Rubin: National Cryptologic Museum Lets Public Peek in on Secret World of Codebreaking
They saw hundreds of millions of lives cramped and crippled, meagrely lived, sacrificed untimely, and they could not see any primary necessity for this blighting and starvation of human life. The Shape of Things to Come
He does a nice job of world-building, setting his characters in cramped business offices and diners. Collect This Now! The Cereal Killings | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
When I took the steering-oar I had first to unbend her cramped fingers. Chapter 27
And as you can tell from my previous posts, a filing cabinet with a pull-out writing shelf and a small desk footprint that leaves everything looking crowded and cramped, is not conducive to work! Welcome to my office « Write Anything
Before there was anything called carpal-tunnel syndrome, there must have been cramped-finger syndrome. Archive 2008-04-01
I explored two small stores, each of which was cramped, narrow, and unchanged since their construction in the 50s.
The kitchen was small and cramped.
There seemed to be miles of dark labyrinthine passagesactually, I suppose, a few hundred yards in allthat reminded one queerly of the lower decks of a liner; there were the same heat and cramped space and warm reek of food, and a humming, whirring noise (it came from the kitchen furnaces) just like the whir of engines. Down and Out in Paris and London
Meanwhile, their continued detention of these two young men, in isolation, in a cramped cell, and without affording them even the process they are due under Iranian law, further corrodes their image around the world. Christian Parenti: Call to Help the Hikers
What I had seen in her notebook—slashes, dashes, and tiny loops all cramped together—looked like gibberish, but since she called her scribbling “medical theories,” I thought possibly she could be right: it could be a kind of formula. Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime
Black's plans do not appear to have been unduly cramped by any constitutional niceties. The Times Literary Supplement
No room on his cramped balcony. Times, Sunday Times
Not always easy to accomplish, cramped in the ladies, but there are some easy ways to get glam in minutes.
The natural expectation, too, of Colonel Godby's move towards me cramped my manœuvres, for had I swerved from the line on which I expected his co-operation, his force would have been compromised and in the power of the enemy's weighty attack. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
Fan view: The skinny seat with cramped legroom is perhaps the least comfortable in the league. USATODAY.com - Breaking down the categories: Best of the best
I had full sensation - an absolute torment when you can't scratch an itch or move a cramped limb.
Repelled by the sunless, cramped conditions in the cities, well-intended architects became obsessed with order.
The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
We sit cramped up at a desk and breathe little shallow breaths with the top of our lungs. Repetitive Strain Injury
She also plans to get another lodger in (like we're not too cramped already) which means turfing me and my computer out of the spare room and cramming everything I own into one room.
The bathroom opened out onto a downstairs hallway that was tiny and cramped.
No one is suggesting that Ste-Croix's horses are mistreated, nevertheless there's something sad about seeing such noble beasts prancing and cantering around a cramped ring.
Her eyes sped across the paper, taking in every letter of her cramped penmanship.
The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
Campaigners behind the sickening video yesterday renewed their criticisms of rearing turkeys in cramped shed conditions. The Sun
She wrote, not in her usual flowing script, but in Doyle's somewhat cramped print.
Our dining room is filled with huge plastic bags filled with the packing papers, so it seems like things are much more cramped and unorganized than they really are.
There are hundreds of families living in cramped conditions on the floor of the airport lounge.
He is cooped up in a cramped cell with 10 other inmates.
Meeting you before the end of the month will be difficult, because I have a very cramped schedule until then.
The cramped office was completely papered with posters and flyers announcing events and protests for everything conceivable.
For a long time, Susan performed her entertaining extravaganzas from the outdated, cramped kitchen/family room in her classic Cape Cod home.
In favouring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited their effectiveness.
I got out for the car and stretched my cramped muscles.
In the clapboard houses radiating out from the youth center in San Jose, multiple families wedge themselves into cramped rooms and small garages.
Lack of money cramped our efforts.
The squalor of the medieval city - with its cramped living quarters and dark alleyways - would be erased forever.
I grew an inch taller and broader between the corner of Cedar Street and Mr. Tetlow's house, such was the charm of the clean, green suburb on a cramped waif from the slums. The Promised Land
We drove around in a cramped, stinky van.
Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium.
In the cramped space at campaign headquarters, he was shouting urgently across a phone line to his lieutenants.
Paint peeling, cramped waiting rooms. The Sun
She didn't want me to go with her to the party in case I cramped her style.
For, as under the domination of exploitage the masses have no right to more of what they produce than is necessary for their bare subsistence, demand is cramped by limitations which are quite independent of the possible amount of production. Freeland A Social Anticipation
Although cramped and uncomfortable, these boats were fine examples of engineering, with most of the features to be found on normal-sized boats, including a periscope.
A more vain politician might have bemoaned the cramped conditions, the indifferent beds, the miles to be covered every day, the rushed meals.
Her hand had such low muscle tone that it cramped painfully as she tried to control the pencil when she wrote.
They stood close together in the cramped space, and he spoke softly in the remembered sibilant voice. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Some whose natural endowments would, under less unpropitious circumstances, qualify them to reach the summit of fame, are fettered by want of patronage and pecuniary distress, while others are cramped in their efforts by a complexional sensibility which they cannot overcome, and checked in enterprise by diffidence and timidity, the natural offspring of a refined and delicate structure. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
Ironically, his writing about Jews is shallow and cramped, as with this post about Brooklyn Jews, which is as cliched and outdated as is possible without using the words plotz or shmear. The Volokh Conspiracy » HRW’s Whitson Defends Fundraising in Totalitarian Countries:
Neighbors were attempting to avoid further development in the chronically cramped neighborhood of shotgun cottages.
The staff are very friendly and a jovial atmosphere prevails in the slightly cramped dining room, which spills out on to the pavement in the summer. Times, Sunday Times
The shadow cabinet room 's going to be awfully cramped. Times, Sunday Times
Newspapers and blogs speak of the "ant tribe" of recent graduates living in cramped basements in the country's big cities while futilely searching for work.
They were very sleek and small and had room for two in the front, and one cramped backseat for a third person in the back.
Some cabins are roomy and plush, while others are cramped and plain.
All these difficulties cramped his progress.
It was a cramped second-hand book dealership, with a whole wall full of books from more than one hundred years ago, some huge and some miniscule, all higgledy-piggledy, shoved in wherever they fit.
It look cramped but my long-legged colleague sat there quite comfortably.
Its 23 bedsits and seven double flats are cramped, and bathrooms are shared.
Her old parents could help but little, for the "rheumatiz," which attacks age in the mountains, had cramped and knotted their limbs, and they were fit for nothing except in fine dry weather. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
The fire quickly consumed the cramped neighbourhood and then spread to highly flammable warehouses on Thames Street. Times, Sunday Times
No closets, cramped kitchen, obsolete dining room with a long gloomy table.
Down a hallway the travelled, the sound of falling rocks and screams of people dimed as they got deeper and deeper “now dad you said something about a book what are you on about” said Cara climbing on Ra as it was cramped for the to stand side by side. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » David’s Second Review Forum
Rising to leave, he winced as his legs cramped, almost crippling him with their intense pain.
The house had six bedrooms, a big living room and a cramped kitchen with a pantry out the back.

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