straiten
Example Sentences
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I want you to consider what per cent you can pay, and not straiten yourselves too much.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
O love immense and independent, which nothing can limit or straiten!
From Spiritual Torrents by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte
Harden, at the same time, with a body of mounted militia, had it in charge to straiten the enemy upon the Edisto.
From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore
Tears are in my eyes to feel Thou art made so straitly: Blessings need must straiten too,— Little canst thou joy or do Thou who lovest greatly.
From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various
But really when I saw so much goodness, generosity, tenderness, and real honesty, I had not the heart to accept it, for fear he should straiten himself upon my account.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel
Vocabulary lists containing straiten
Pygmalion
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Long Walk to Freedom
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"A Day's Work," Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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