What is "cramped"

Usage examples of "cramped".

Disappointed with the cramped accommodations available to him this time at the Hotel de Valois, Adams changed lodgings, moving to the Hotel du Roi on the Place du Carrousel, between the Palais Royal and the Quai du Louvre, which was to remain his headquarters.

Not paying attention to the cramped conditions, Arian stood and the back of his head smacked against the edge of a ceiling beam.

He went down to his cabin to take care of that, making his way with difficulty through the narrow, cramped, and unfamiliar belowdecks spaces, jammed everywhere as they were with materiel and instruments.

At that Captain Parker gave his parole, as did Sir Arthur, and I sent for Tommy Bickford to help make them as comfortable as was possible in our cramped quarters.

But in the very cramped quarters aboard the schooner he was using to supervise the landing of his troops at Bayou Bienvenu, his movements had become downright cautious.

Looking down at the cramped writing covering the contract, Brenn decided his reservations were groundless.

It was hardly more than a surfboard dressed up with a mast, rudder, centerboard, and a cramped little cockpit into which you could stick your feet as you sat on the open deck a few inches above the water.

With nothing better to do at that moment, and needing to escape the cramped confines of their command post carrier, Dixon and Cerro had left those tracks, leaving captains and sergeants to monitor the incoming status reports.

The cramped space had a stone floor, a small set of cupboards, and a narrow counter crowded with a hot plate, an ancient electric vat coffeepot - the same kind I used for catered events - and a cookie jar in the shape of the Kremlin.

The nest was just a barrel-wart, up above the signal crosstree, a somewhat cramped place for a man to be.

Aft of control in the cramped radio and ESM rooms four Chinese-speaking NSA cryptologists listened through headsets to communications from the Chinese mainland surrounding the ship.

I stretched my poor cramped limbs as Debs pulled out her radio to summon our friends on the Miami Beach police force.

Max sniffed every inch of the cramped room, including an indignant cat, a shy poodle, and a terrified yellow canary in a birdcage, all of whom were already there with their owners when Mitchell and Kate arrived.

In these two or three narrow, cramped streets the appearance of a Rolls Roy ce would cause no comment, but moving at anything more than a majestic footpace called for wings, which would be conspicuous.

He could only hope that getting the fueler into zero-gee would make all these cramped spaces feel larger.