Straitened is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAITENED in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRAITEN, to make strait, narrow
• make or become narrow

Words related to STRAITENED

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How to use STRAITENED in a sentence

• The Emperor, straitened in his finances, was in no condition to meet this powerful confederacy, although the illustrious Tilly was the commander of his forces.
• This service to the Republic was not forgotten, although he remained long unemployed, living obscurely at Paris with straitened resources.
• That prince so straitened them in these quarters, that they were content to come to a treaty with him, and stipulated to depart his country.
• The Genius of Poverty, hampered and straitened as it is, is not so barren of invention but it can trade upon the staple of its own vice, without drawing upon their capital.
• A straitened existence, sweet in spite of everything, now began for them.
• The great revulsion from my previous straitened theological convictions was the cause of infinite perplexity and distress.
• His physical condition is deplorable and his circumstances extremely straitened.
• For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
• Notwithstanding the precautions which he had taken, Severus appears to have become straitened for supplies about the time that he captured Ctesiphon.
• It was plain that they would have been worse straitened than in their accommodations, if he had refused their kindness and gone somewhere else.
• Our self-denials are already in operation, under the stress of straitened means, or the vital necessity of helping others less favoured than ourselves.
• She enjoyed life in spite of straitened circumstances.
• It has been seen that the Evangelical clergy were almost to a man debarred from the emoluments of their profession, and lived in very straitened circumstances.
• During most of his life he was in straitened pecuniary circumstances, and ill-health and family afflictions cast a melancholy over his later years.
• When Frank left Southwick two years ago and pursued Lizzie Baker to London, he had found her in straitened circumstances and unable to obtain employment.
• I had intended to have got this note off two or three days past, but I am more straitened for time than ever just now.
• Let not the heart of God be straitened, and His hand shortened by our unbelief.
• For a hard-working mechanic, in straitened circumstances, courage of another kind was required.
• She had borne no child to him, and after his death she, together with a younger sister, was living in straitened circumstances.
• He remained a long time in Mosul, in extremely straitened circumstances but resigned to the will of God, always in prayer and supplication, and with a thankful tongue.
• The American Missionary Association was obliged to discontinue it for a year on account of the straitened condition of the treasury.
• At last she came forth, and there was that in her face that made all the house look one at the other and the heart of Aud to be straitened.
• He made many attempts to procure a good situation in New York for a well-known English author, who was at that time in straitened circumstances.
• Only through this straitened path can the cave be reached, and this narrow ravine and the valley within Pelayo proposed to hold with his slender and ill-armed force.
• Many of the wealthy found themselves in straitened circumstances, and many of the poor suffered and died for want of food.
• A foreign family, finding themselves in straitened circumstances, were desirous of parting with various things, consisting for the most part in articles of female attire.
• She lived there quietly with her one daughter, in somewhat straitened circumstances.
• Their mother was a person of great sweetness, dignity, and piety, bringing up her sons wisely and well in very straitened circumstances, and loved by them.
• Adams to return to America if he finds himself straitened, as I think he must be.
• Still straitened for cash, I sold my watch, and made a shift to get home, where my friends supplied me with another horse and another watch.
• Henderson, and he had been unable to send any money to his father, whose circumstances were straitened, and who found it very hard to make both ends meet.
• Straitened and serious elder daughter of her time, she kept the house of literature.
• This is the point where the straitened arm of the sea expands into the basin of the Sound.
• In reality his straitened means may have had something to do with the step.
• The death of the father, which was sudden and unexpected, preceded that of the mother, but not of James, and left the survivors in rather straitened circumstances.
• The straitened circumstances in which she has been compelled to live have prevented her from yielding to self-indulgence or frivolity.

Similar words containing STRAITEN without suffix ed

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