Sentence examples for crimped from inspiring English sources

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crimped

verb

Past of crimp

  • The sharp bend had crimped the pipe so almost no water could get through.

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I didn't know it was happening so my friends had got me bright blue spandex tights and bright shorts and I had this cut-up MTV shirt and there was a beauty station and they crimped my hair.

He argues that limits would be counterproductive if they crimped growth, since that would reduce firms' ability to invest in cleaner technology.

In the short term, however, that has crowded out investment in an economy built on illegal money and crimped the entrepreneurial spirit of those not yet in the clink.

If the retired have all bet on shares, they will find that their long run is, it turns out, a crowded race.Perhaps the biggest damage that comes when returns from equities are overestimated is that investment, and hence growth, in the world economy gets crimped.

Abundant warnings were issued to the bank but its response was bungled, in part because the balkanised way HSBC managed its operations crimped the flow of information, and because rounds of cost cuts devastated its compliance department.

In such ways is Japan's foreign policy crimped by its vested interests.Chinese-Japanese relations are less than cordial, despite the gloss the Japanese press put on Mr Koizumi's visit to Beijing last October.

The market is also crimped by a rule that no more than 20% of farmland in any county may lie fallow.

Finally, she crimped commercial banks' access to roubles to limit their ability to speculate against the currency.Ms Nabiullina needed to be bold.

Just as corporate spending stayed weak for years after the 2001 recession, so consumer spending will be crimped for more than a few months.

The ocean currents, called gyres, are swirled around by the earth's rotation and crimped by its land masses.This is uncontroversial.

In fact supply is severely crimped, says Mr Yun.

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