Sentence examples for be constricted from inspiring English sources
verb
To narrow, especially by applying pressure.
While "coal use is a future certainty," as Mr. Easterbrook argues, its use will be constricted as renewable alternatives to fossil fuels displace it.
One reason was its refusal to be constricted by the stalemate of superpowers and the balance of nuclear terror that then defined peace.
But in a larger sense, in terms of his ambitions beyond family, he did not want to be constricted by narrow choices.
Americans may no longer have a vocabulary to explain why freedom should sometimes be constricted, but they like it when they see people trying to do it.
Under a bill that was passed by the New Jersey Legislature in June, development is to be constricted on 395,000 sensitive acres of the highlands and channeled toward the more highly developed 145,000 peripheral acres.
So an individual trying to replicate the $409 package would pay at least $523 at the Tavistock, $532 at the Royal National, and the days of the week would be constricted.
Television is expanding and film seems to be constricting – this is Hollywood studio films.
"One of the dangers is that emphasis on propriety and good can be constricting.
Blood vessels are assumed to be constricting if resistance is increasing.
And last year the supply was constricted.
Even in the United States, companies say they are constricted.
