Sentence examples for cramped existence from inspiring English sources

So it's back to Washington, and a cramped existence that neither of them enjoys.

Despite a cramped existence and financial hardship, the arrangement is much more stable than Mr. Peterson's own childhood.

In some cases, a distressing event gives rise to a more optimistic perspective; in "Smash," a serious auto accident makes an unhappily married man feel "finer than fine" about his cramped existence.

As for that odd touchpad: it uses Microsoft Precision drivers, which makes it very accurate, but it lives a cramped existence — you can turn it into a numpad at the push of a button, however.

It was to find a way out of this cramping existence that ambitious Mrs Austerlitz put her daughter on the stage.

"Great to get away and just chill," one of us will inevitably say to the other as the bus leaves this lovely, spacious, delightful existence and heads north on the New Jersey Turnpike -- back to our sooty, cramped, cacophonous existence.

How cramped my existence has become.

As I walk I think about the relationship between the arguably useless beauty of the palatial grounds and the cramped, pressing existence in the town below, where life is lived in the shadow of the fort and palace.

He separated questions of production and distribution and could not rest satisfied with the distribution that condemned the labouring classes to a cramped and wretched existence, in many cases to starvation.

In sprawling Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, cramped under authoritarian rule for most of its existence, Mr Wahid was committed to pluralism, liberalism, democracy and tolerance.

After such a long suspended existence in the flask's cramped quarters, he is ready to indulge all those impulses.