Example sentences for: cramped

How can you use “cramped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They built the six- and eight-story tenements you see today, cramped quarters in buildings twice as high as those permitted elsewhere, with some floors no more than 6 ft high.

  • 5. ANGRY MONKEY BITES STEWARDESS IN LATEST CASE OF "AIR RAGE" Fed up with long lines, cramped seats, indifferent service, and third-rate movies with the hot parts edited out, ChiChi ...

  • The second Studio 54/disco movie of the summer is pronounced "tacky, tiny and about as seductively nostalgic as those videotapes of your cousin's wedding" (Kehr, New York Daily News ). The film's weaknesses: 1) a moralizing story line--"a cleaned-up version of The Rake's Progress " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ); 2) poor acting from leads Ryan Phillippe and Neve Campbell; 3) cramped sets that fail to convey Studio 54's extravagance and debauchery.

  • A few hundred boisterous Texans--mostly men, middle-aged or above, with a fair number of angry young rednecks and dotty old women--filled the cramped banquet room of a run-down motor lodge in "downtown" Kilgore.

  • The cramped 1,000-seat theater makes it seem as if actors "are talking to you, asking you questions, involving you in their fears.


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