How to Use constrict in a Sentence

constrict

verb

• The drug is used to constrict blood vessels.
• He felt constricted by their notions of what was proper.
• The declining economy has constricted job opportunities.
• Blood is going to rush to the area, constrict the stitches.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 25 May 2021
• The cold water can constrict the blood vessels, which can lead to a decrease in blood flow to the heart.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• The weight of the mask is just light enough to feel comforting rather than constricting.
  — Megan Schaltegger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
• When threatened, your brain is designed to constrict and target the threat like the zoom lens of a camera.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Also, the ice will constrict the blood vessels in the area, which will decrease blood flow and slow healing.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 2 May 2023
• First, blood vessels constrict to reduce blood flow to our skin and reduce heat loss in the body’s core.
  — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• But there is some side boning that gives it a slight corset feel which some may find a bit too constricting.
  — Shannon Ullman, Health, 20 Apr. 2023
• As a result, roles for women—both on screen and behind the scenes—began to constrict.
  — Elizabeth Weitzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
• This stress can stretch and constrict the nerve while limiting its blood supply.
  — Hannah Seo, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
• Your blood vessels need time to constrict enough to slow blood flow to your muscles and kickstart the repair process.
  — Anisa Arsenault, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2023
• To do this, blood vessels constrict, and heart rate and blood pressure leap higher.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 19 May 2022
• The boas will stalk or wait to strike their prey with their jaws, constricting their bodies around the prey and squeezing to ensure death.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Made from a stretchy blend of nylon and spandex, the textured swimsuit grazes the body and doesn’t feel constricting.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
• This causes your blood vessels to constrict and the heart rate to rise, raising your blood pressure.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
• Wadyka explains that the item is an offshoot of the corset, made to constrict, conceal, and whittle.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
• His plan draws three of the four districts--all but the 3rd in the northwest corner, which must constrict--toward Little Rock.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2021
• Dresses that don’t constrict and give way to breeziness with every step.
  — Laura Lajiness, Vogue, 15 June 2021
• Some of the babies slumped down on the pillows or arched backward off of them, constricting their airways.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• The iris, a muscle, contracts so much that the pupils of victims often constrict into tiny dots.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• The ways one is raised and educated, the language one learns, the stories to which one has access: all these create and constrict the self.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• When someone shines a flashlight into your eyes, your pupils will constrict or shrink.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
• Anything that feels constricting is too small; anything that slides around is too large.
  — Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• Make sure the sleeves don’t cut into your upper arms, cover your hands, or constrict movement in any way.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 25 Jan. 2022
• Your heart will begin to beat faster, your blood pressure will increase, and in turn the arteries will start to constrict so that less blood flows through the body.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• As space constricts, for many of us, to the four walls of our houses and apartments, time seems to have overflowed its usual containers.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2020
• Which raises the question: Who tied this constricting rope?
  — Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• The blood vessels can’t constrict enough to send the blood to where it’s needed because there’s just not enough fluid in the circulation.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024