What is "constricting"

Usage examples of "constricting".

The thought of him undressing her interfered with her lung function, constricting her chest and stifling her oxygen flow.

With it came the stink of my own putrefaction, my bowels voiding as I thrashed to the ground, the lunatic ringing of cicadas in my head as the high D of blood whined in my constricting vessels.

The constricting band still squeezed my throat in dry gasps, and in a frenzy of hysteria I threw myself wildly across the cabin, beating and battering on the emergency button, shrieking and sobbing and screaming .

A pang passed through me, constricting my heart so that momentarily I swayed.

Not when the anxiety had come again, a fierce knot in her stomach, a pressure on her chest, constricting her breaking, refusing to go away.

He sprinted over Eileen's corpse, his heart constricting, his blood turned to ice.

Her childhood friend had long since moved away, first to college and then with her husband to San Francisco, but the parents still owned this mansion, and during the night, while Tess had hidden in the damp, black, constricting alcove behind the boulders in the back yard fountain, she'd ignored the increasing pain in her cramped muscles and struggled to focus her grief-filled, terror-racked thoughts in an effort to decide what to do next.

At the conclusion of the press conference of Ramsey and Hussinger, Gordon had felt the constricting heat flow through him and seem to wash through the air.

The afternoon sun splashed across its searing white marble, constricting Sabinus' eyes to narrow slits as he took in the breathtaking panorama of the city flowing down from them in all directions—the brick and marble, stadiums and temples, streets, parks, and baths that were Rome.

He found his library stuffy and constricting, and he crossed out phrase after phrase that failed to pass muster.

She stepped over toward him, eyes fixed on his as they flaunted her superiority and his helplessness, flashing green versus constricting brown.

Fresh energy seemed to suffuse him as he paced the basement in thought, his dark blond curls swinging with every step as he cocked his head low and tightened the muscles in his bull neck for an attempted charge out of the constricting corral of Fate.