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Example sentences for "constricted"

Lexicographically close words:
constraints; constrayne; constrayned; constreined; constrict; constricting; constriction; constrictions; constrictor; constrictors
  1. Frame and tang apparently square-sectioned, the former perhaps unintentionally constricted at one side.

  2. Slightly constricted at midsection but otherwise without taper; positioning of nail holes as in no.

  3. But as Jim started to go farther down its constricted length, Dennis stopped him.

  4. As Jim had done, he sank to the floor, his body constricted in a sheath that tightened as it dried and which bound him as securely as any straitjacket might have done.

  5. Breadth at the squamosals 1-1/2 times the height at basi-temporal, which has a constricted praemaxillary ridge, and the quadrate with a very small pneumatic foramen.

  6. These also have the skull much constricted at the temporal region.

  7. Subsequently the bud becomes constricted at the base, separates from the parent, and the young Hydra begins a distinct existence.

  8. And now the position of the epigastric artery is to be remembered, so as to avoid wounding it in the incision about to be made through the constricted neck of the sac.

  9. In this the canal is constricted at the point a, midway between the bulb and glans.

  10. The canal now being folded upon itself in heart-shape, next becomes constricted in situations, marking out the future auricle and ventricle and arterial bulb, which still communicate with each other.

  11. The falciform process also blends with the ligament; and thus it is that the femoral hernia, when constricted by either of these three structures, may well be supposed to suffer pressure from the three together.

  12. It is in cases of this latter kind of stricture that experience has demonstrated the necessity of opening the sac (a proceeding otherwise not only needless, but objectionable) and dividing its constricted neck.

  13. The prostatic canal is constricted and bent upwards by the third lobe.

  14. Another instrument, after entering the first stricture, occupies a false passage which was made in the canal between the two constricted parts.

  15. Still, the neck of the sac, 2, remains constricted at the ring, whilst the part which occupies the canal is also very much narrowed.

  16. If it pass on the outer margin of this tendon, then the neck of the sac, bending inwards in order to gain the external ring, will be constricted against the sharp resisting edge of the tendon.

  17. She extinguished it in an ash tray, but his anger lingered, an unreasoning exasperation that constricted his throat.

  18. He recognized obscurely that a singer's existence must be different from the constricted life of a country town; here were no stage, no audience, for the great harmonies he had imagined himself producing.

  19. When bowels feel constricted or seem as if grasped by the finger nails.

  20. The furrow increases laterally and in depth, and meets on the dorsal aspect of the toe, giving the toe the appearance of being constricted by a piece of fine cord.

  21. Bastianelli discusses those cases in which portions of the liver, having been constricted from the general body of the organ and remaining attached by a pedicle, give rise to movable tumors of the abdomen.

  22. It has been suggested (Davis) that such a constricted portion of a valley be called a "shut-in.

  23. A mile farther down the valley is constricted and steep-walled--really a canyon.

  24. This is opened by the careful insertion of one finger at a time, until the fingers have been passed through the constricted neck into the open cavity of the womb.

  25. In the majority of cases of stricture, dilatation of the gullet in front of the constricted portion soon occurs.

  26. Our largest species are about an inch long and our smallest about the eighth of an inch, nearly all having the body where it joins the thorax constricted into a very narrow waist; this is sometimes of considerable length.

  27. In this genus the sepals are longer than the petals; and the narrow, tapering fruits are constricted between the numerous seeds.

  28. The fruits are spreading, many-angled pods, usually about an inch in length, constricted between the seeds when ripe, with a beak about a third the length of the whole pod enclosing a single seed at its base.

  29. They are constricted between the seeds, and both valves and beak are clothed with stiff, whitish hairs.

  30. Where, however, the distal end persists in its constricted condition it is drawn forward as the penis increases in bulk.

  31. The loose, pendulous prepuce, or even the prepuce in the evolutionary stage of disappearance, that only loosely covers one-half of the glans, is as dangerous as his long and constricted counterpart.

  32. Microsauria, nearest the reptiles, with persistent notochord completely surrounded by constricted cylinders on which the neural arch rests.

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

  34. 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.

  35. Color of upper parts lighter and more uniform; incisive foramen oval instead of conspicuously constricted posteriorly; posterior margin of incisive foramen farther from premolars.

  36. The globular chloroplasts are constricted in the middle, and split into two equal daughter-globules.

  37. The bacteria multiply, like the chromacea, by simple segmentation; as soon as the structureless plasma-granule has reached a certain size by simple growth, it is constricted and splits into two halves.

  38. Of first importance, are the round or globular vases with more or less constricted necks.

  39. A bottle-shaped basket, with constricted neck and rectangular body, used by the Cherokees for carrying fish.

  40. The lower portion, which represents the neck and chin, is cut from the somewhat constricted part near the base of the shell, while the broad outline of the head reaches the first suture at the noded shoulder of the body whorl.

  41. The other has an upright, slightly constricted neck, ornamented with a band of rude indentations.

  42. Intestine on each side opened, with probe passed through constricted opening of ileo-colic valve.

  43. The caecal pouches are more completely differentiated, communicating with the colon by a constricted neck.

  44. It is constricted from below by the curve of the hepatic artery as this vessel passes from the coeliac axis to reach the liver at the transverse fissure between the layers of the lesser omentum.

  45. The part of the neural canal in front of the earliest union forms the brain and very early becomes constricted into three vesicles, to which the names of prosencephalon, mesencephalon and rhombencephalon are now usually given.

  46. Just in front of the anterior end of the calcarine fissure the callosal gyrus is constricted to form the isthmus which connects it with the hippocampal or uncinate gyrus.

  47. Its fronds are constricted at intervals, taper at the tip, and grow in tufts.

  48. The genus Lomentaria includes a few weeds with tubular fronds that are constricted at intervals, and divided internally by transverse membranous septa.

  49. The men, tall and massive, seemed awkwardly constricted in ill-fitting, blue cotton overalls such as American laborers wear over street-clothes.

  50. Here in Atuona, whose life was colored by the presence of whites, the days must take up their constricted regular march again.

  51. Anger at all this useless trouble constricted his throat and made his voice husky.

  52. The Armenian screamed, forcing air through his constricted throat again and again.

  53. But when Simon tried to speak, his chest and throat were constricted by fear, and his voice came out in a croak.

  54. Some of the men tried to prepare breakfast in the constricted space; the most of them were too much excited to feel any inclination to eat.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constricted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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