CRAMP in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for CRAMP, such as:

1. The kitchen was small and cramped.
2. She had a sudden painful cramp in her left leg.
3. Tighter trade restrictions might cramp economic growth.
4. Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
5. They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAMP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cramp
 n.  something that confines or contracts; restraint; hindrance
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  "Well," said he, "I will swim on until I am worn out, or the cramp seizes me, and then I shall sink;" and he struck out with the energy of despair.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
2  Madame Ratignolle begged Robert to accompany her to the house; she complained of cramp in her limbs and stiffness of the joints.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
4  Prince Andrew, who had thought it was all the same to him whether or not Moscow was taken as Smolensk had been, was suddenly checked in his speech by an unexpected cramp in his throat.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
5  For a moment, stiffened by the cramped position in which she had slept, she could not remember where she was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Now that the four boys were gone, the house burned and the family cramped in the overseer's cottage, she could not bring herself to go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  She turned the pages slowly, narrowly scanning the rows of names and figures written in Frank's cramped copperplate hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  Just beneath it stood the photograph of Lily Bart, looking out imperially on the cheap gimcracks, the cramped furniture of the little room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  She pinched her wrist, as though she were a noisy child in church, and when she was decent and cramped again, she listened.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  The Red Swede staggered up, rubbed his cramped knees, lumbered to the wire fence, held the strands apart for her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  Mrs. Perry confided, "My, it's a shame we got to entertain you in such a cramped place."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
13  Edna arose, cramped from lying so long and still in the hammock.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
14  She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
15  This shook me up considerable, because I didn't want to go back to the widow's any more and be so cramped up and sivilized, as they called it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
Example Sentence:
1  Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
2  Tighter trade restrictions might cramp economic growth.
3  She had a sudden painful cramp in her left leg.
4  The swimmer got cramp in his legs and had to be helped out of the water.
5  The report says some masters house their workers in bad conditions - cramped, damp dormitory blocks with poor sanitation.
6  While the large vessel looked imposing from the outside, the interior was actually cramped.
7  After living in a cramped studio apartment for years, Alicia thought the modest one bedroom looked downright palatial.
8  The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence.
9  The kitchen was small and cramped.
10  You must realize that it is arrogance that has cramped your progress.