He is straitened for want of money.
You are not straitened in us, but in your own bowels you are straitened.
And straitened economic circumstances now could present new business opportunities to gangsters of all types.
I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement.
Even in the straitened years of post-war reconstruction, he was soon selling millions of books a year.
When his father came to Hongkong, he lived in straitened circumstances and worked hard to achieve today's success.
Was born in the family of declining official at the age of 29, parents have died, The family is in straitened circumstances.
He is often called to consult on how to "green up" projects, and his advice, in these straitened times, is often admirably bold.
