Sentence examples for very strapped from inspiring English sources

"Financially I'm very strapped right now.

Until I published Bright Lights, I was very strapped.

Mr Shaw, a Peterborough based town planning consultant, said: "Councils are very strapped for cash these days.

We are very, very hard strapped just to support the basic research going on with faculty and graduate students.

The teacher gave us a very quick introduction, strapped us into safety harnesses and sent us up to the platform.

"I was … put on what looked like a hospital bed, and strapped down very tightly with belts.

"It's a wonderful place with wonderful teachers and administrators and volunteers who do so very much for so very many kids with incredibly strapped resources," she said.

When I tell him that, for all his stated insecurities, he looks like the very picture of strapping Norse masculinity, he replies drily.

And it's a lucrative source of revenue for hospitals, which always seem very eager to strap on the ventilator and charge a hefty fee.

Economists saw in the data a testament to the degree to which many households are so strapped that the very culture of American consumption has been altered.

The very fact that localities are strapped for cash means that more would follow Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels’ example: He leased the Indiana Toll Road (ITR) to private investors for 75 years for $3.8 billion.