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Meanings of in straitened circumstances in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pinched"
Examples for "pinched"
1
Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
2
Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
3
I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
4
But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
5
I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
1
Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
2
My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
3
Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
4
And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
5
He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
1
No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
2
The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
3
Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
4
It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
5
Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
1
He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.
2
In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious.
3
Lavish in her generosity to others, she was personally frugal, even penurious.
4
They were selfish and penurious, and hard-hearted and severe towards their servants.
5
Are there not many in their midst who are friendless and penurious?
1
Parents were too hard up to provide any extra money, she said.
2
The wind is blowing hard up above and the waves are high.
3
Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling.
4
I took the ring because I was hard up-neededmoney at once.
5
The only thing I can think about now is being hard up.
Usage of in straitened circumstances in English
1
He died last year and left his widow and child in straitened circumstances.
2
Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable.
3
He, however, is not at all sanguine, as Germany is itself in straitened circumstances.
4
What if he did, in straitened circumstances, accept their aid?
5
The year above mentioned, the last of that term, found the poet in straitened circumstances.
6
The guardians whom he appointed appropriated the estate, leaving Demosthenes and his sister in straitened circumstances.
7
The Duchess d'Orleans is also in straitened circumstances.
8
Many of them were the sons of wealthy parents, while he at times was in straitened circumstances.
9
Of course they are in straitened circumstances.
10
The family is still in straitened circumstances, the father having proved too weak a character to support them.
11
Domestic viewers may frown a little at the frequent complaints that the school is now in straitened circumstances.
12
I've always been in straitened circumstances.
13
And all those who live in straitened circumstances, though keeping up the appearance of comfort,-howmany are there of those?
14
Many of the wealthy found themselves in straitened circumstances, and many of the poor suffered and died for want of food.
15
He had been banished from the French Court for his participation in the insurrection of Brittany, and was living in straitened circumstances.
16
I understand Mrs Irving is not a churchwoman, and she may be in real need, as the family is in straitened circumstances.