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She pinched her wrist, as though she were a noisy child in church, and when she was decent and cramped again, she listened.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAMPED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cramped
 a.  jammed; stuffed; uncomfortably small or restricted
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  For a moment, stiffened by the cramped position in which she had slept, she could not remember where she was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Now that the four boys were gone, the house burned and the family cramped in the overseer's cottage, she could not bring herself to go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  She turned the pages slowly, narrowly scanning the rows of names and figures written in Frank's cramped copperplate hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  Just beneath it stood the photograph of Lily Bart, looking out imperially on the cheap gimcracks, the cramped furniture of the little room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  She pinched her wrist, as though she were a noisy child in church, and when she was decent and cramped again, she listened.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  The Red Swede staggered up, rubbed his cramped knees, lumbered to the wire fence, held the strands apart for her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Mrs. Perry confided, "My, it's a shame we got to entertain you in such a cramped place."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
9  Edna arose, cramped from lying so long and still in the hammock.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
10  She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
11  This shook me up considerable, because I didn't want to go back to the widow's any more and be so cramped up and sivilized, as they called it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
12  Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
13  For this purpose I applied all the strength I possessed to force an entrance from the cramped spot in which I lay to the adjoining room.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
14  The old man did not answer, but looked at his master with wild staring eyes, while with his cramped hand he grasped a piece of furniture to enable him to stand upright.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 79. The Lemonade.
15  I did not know how it was, but though there were only two of us, we were at once always cramped for room, and yet had always room enough to lose everything in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
Example Sentence:
1  The report says some masters house their workers in bad conditions - cramped, damp dormitory blocks with poor sanitation.
2  While the large vessel looked imposing from the outside, the interior was actually cramped.
3  After living in a cramped studio apartment for years, Alicia thought the modest one bedroom looked downright palatial.
4  The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence.
5  The kitchen was small and cramped.
6  You must realize that it is arrogance that has cramped your progress.
7  Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
8  Tighter trade restrictions might cramp economic growth.
9  She had a sudden painful cramp in her left leg.
10  The swimmer got cramp in his legs and had to be helped out of the water.