cramped

Example Sentences

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Out on the street, the shops circle around us, further conveying the cramped nature of the neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

The report said observers witnessed prisoners voting in cramped quarters that didn’t allow for privacy and having to hand their ballots to others to put in the box.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

For evacuees like Ramon Adino, 68, who is living in a cramped school classroom with 12 other families, a return to "normal life" is now just a matter of waiting.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Roughly half a million people pass each day through this cramped, dingy catacomb beneath Madison Square Garden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Marti watched as a CIA technician, toiling away in the cramped embassy office, carefully assembled a dead-drop package designed to look like a beat-up pack of cigarettes.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau