Sentence examples for cramped down from inspiring English sources

They each have their concerns and their feeling that their personhood has been overlooked, cramped down and stultified by someone else.

Some of it got sorted out in the spring, with higher prices cramping down on demand.

Regulatory forces will cramp down on innovation, rightfully so if the industry behaves irresponsibly.

It was a cramped, run-down two-story house with bars on the windows.

Also bearing the bullet and shell marks of the battles of the 1990s, they are cramped, run-down and patched, with clothing lines stretching haphazardly from windows to nearby trees.

BAGHDAD — Deep below the workshops in Baghdad's cramped, run-down jewelry district, unemployed men spend their days scouring the city's sewer system for the one thing they say can bring them money: flakes of gold.

Certainly many older people live in clean and comfortable surroundings with their children, but far too many are shunted aside, on their own in cramped, run-down apartments or worse, badly run nursing homes.

Now, although the operation remains unglamorous (seven cramped employees downing doughnut holes and coffee while staring at monitors in a building on West 38th Street), Situation Marketing handles more than half of all new Broadway shows and bills them more than $1 million a year.