34 examples of constricted in sentences

how it hurts!" He was pleating the table-cloth, swallowing as if his throat had constricted, and still rearing his head this way and that in the tight collar.

" Edwin threw a quivering glance to his mother and gulped through a constricted throat.

Miss Josie Beemis, narrowly constricted between shoulders that barely sloped off from her neck, with arms folded flat to her flat bosom and her back a hypothenuse against the counter, looked up.

" At that Miss Hassiebrock's ears, with the large pearl blobs in them, tingled where they peeped out from the scallops of yellow hair, and she swallowed with a forward movement as if her throat had constricted.

Not even the most convinced Englishman can look upon the twisted and constricted choir of Canterbury and rejoice.

The Old Law was the manifestation of the Principle of Life working under constricted conditions: the New Law is the manifestation of the same Principle working under expanding conditions.

On the other hand, when by the same mechanism the cutaneous vessels are constricted, there will be a smaller flow of blood through the skin, which will serve to check the loss of heat from the body (secs.

The band is tied loosely about the limb, the hard body is held over the artery to be constricted, and a stick is inserted beneath the band on the opposite side of the limb and used to twist the band in such a way that the limb is tightly constricted thereby, and the hard body thus made to compress the artery (Fig. 160).

The band is tied loosely about the limb, the hard body is held over the artery to be constricted, and a stick is inserted beneath the band on the opposite side of the limb and used to twist the band in such a way that the limb is tightly constricted thereby, and the hard body thus made to compress the artery (Fig. 160).

"The entire circumference of the limb may be constricted by any sort of elastic band or rubber tube, or any other strong elastic material passed around the limb several times on a stretch, drawn tight and tied in a knot.

Only the tragic figure of George Cannon hung vague in the far distance of memory, and the sight thereof constricted her heart.

Hilda's throat was constricted by the sight.

Miss Lydia wrote a letter to Uncle Ralph, but it was doubtful whether that relative's constricted affairs would permit him to furnish help.

"Careful," she warned in a constricted voice.

Also in the common gray mould of infusions and preserves, Penicillium, by a process which is perhaps intermediate between budding and cell-division, a cell at the end of a hypha constricts itself in several places, and the constricted portions become separate as conidiospores.

The highway along the eastern portion of the Presqu'île was much like that between Taravao and Puforatoai, tortuous, constricted, and often forced to hang upon a shelf carved out of the precipice which hemmed it.

Mr. Comer, in his weekly talks to the office force, had repeatedly said sowhence the origin of the bookkeeper's warmed-over wisdombut Mitchell's duties were so simple and so constricted as to allow no opening for science, or so, at least, it seemed to him.

There seem to be three badly crevassed parts where the glacier is constricted and the fall is heavier.

When my arms were released from their constricted position, the pain was intense.

The order of Owen Roe's advance was admirably preserved, while the Scottish and English forces were in confusion, already broken and crowded into a narrow and constricted space between the two rivers.

We stood at the constricted neck of one of the great splits in the second wall.

You may imagine with what methodical solemnity the Boche "crumps" the interior of that constricted area.

(2) Causing relievers and relieved to meet violently together in some constricted fairway.

4. P. aurita, n. sp. Cells cup-shaped, tapering at bottom, constricted just below the top; mouth at an angle of 45 degrees, circular; margin subcrenate, plicate, with three folds on each side, with a wide shallow notch in front and entire behind.

[Illustration] A hundred years of hideousness, Constricted brows, and strain, and stress!

34 examples of  constricted  in sentences