The phrase "cramped area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a space that is small and confined, often making it difficult to move around.
Example: "The furniture in the living room made it feel like a cramped area, leaving little room for movement."
Alternatives: "tight space" or "confined space".
After she starred in "Swan Lake" with Ballet Theater last week — becoming the first African-American to do so with the company at the Met — the crowd of autograph-seekers was so large that it had to be moved away from the cramped area outside the stage door.
According to Plimpton, the bedroom where Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea," standing up at his work desk in "a square foot of cramped area," was a hive of clutter, clean but enormously crowded.
E.P.A. officials said last week that they would now need to dismantle the mounds and spread the material in six-inch sheets to find, extract and ship away the radioactive pieces, a painstaking and difficult process, especially in the cramped area where the work would be done.
And, it was a cramped area so the real estate price was high and future development of the area was saturated.
But the arrival of more riders has set off a battle for space in these often cramped areas.
"There are a lot of people in cramped areas, a lot of nooks to watch for". Everything apparently went without a hitch, however.
The middle class continued to prefer living in new suburbs rather than the cramped areas of the city center.
Before the renovation, the largest room contained the snack bar kitchen and a cramped eating area.
Meals destined for a ledge or table in the cramped dining area are staged on aluminum trays.
A formerly cramped cargo area is nearly six inches longer and 2.1 inches wider, increasing overall capacity by a remarkable 68 percent for the four-door, Toyota says.
And the layout is awkward, the narrow side entrance and cramped bar area contributing to a bottleneck of human traffic on the way to the tables.
