cramped

Example Sentences

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I’m in a cramped examination room at a clinic in Panama City.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

The pair, who live in a cramped studio apartment in a crumbling colonial-era building, can’t afford butter or mayonnaise, so breakfast is a piece of plain bread.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Lots of the scenes take place in cramped elevators and bank vaults.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

For the next six days the planes’ cramped interiors became their jails.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

They had found all the Jews well, though cramped and hungry, and seen them to new hiding places.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom