How to use cramp in a sentence

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• We looked over the house; downstairs was spacious, but upstairs really cramped.From the entry downstairs
• I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.From the entry hanging
• I don't want my Mum to go to the party: she'd really cramp my style.From the entry cramp someone's style
• The Latin patriarchate in Jerusalem is, by modern standards, a very cramped space.From the entry patriarchate
• His studio was cramped when he began as an artist.From the entry studio
• Hypokalemia may manifest clinically as fatigue and muscle cramping.From the entry clinically
• The norovirus causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping.From the entry norovirus
• You shudder as cramps force another hot, wet rush of muck into your diaper, refreshing the stink.2025 October 9, @birdmom.bsky.social, Bluesky. From the entry hose suit
• Sickness is cramped psychic quarters and joylessness, an extreme and perhaps prolonged unsweetness.2017, Jennie Hirsh, Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, page 332. From the entry unsweetness
• These days cramped classrooms are all too common, with class sizes creeping up.2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian. From the entry creep up
• Henry James, after he suffered an attack of writer's cramp, began to dictate to a typist.2007 Nov. 4, John Updike, "On Literary Biography" (excerpt from Due Considerations), New York Times (retrieved 9 Dec 2011). From the entry writer's cramp
• A heating pad and gentle stretches are wonderful natural treatments for the pain of menstrual cramps.2007, Lisa M. Chavis, Ask Your Pharmacist: A Leading Pharmacist Answers Your Most Frequently Asked Questions, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN…. From the entry menstrual cramp
• I've been locked in here so long, I'm starting to cramp up like you wouldn't believe.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area…. From the entry cramp up
• These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.2003, Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything. From the entry whale
• Muscarinic side effects such as salivation, abdominal cramps and diarrhoea can be counteracted with parasympathicolytics.2001, J.B.M. Kuks, H.J.G.H. Oosterhuis, “Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction: Outcome Measures and Clinical Scales”, in Roberto J.…. From the entry parasympathicolytic
• You may notice some periodlike cramping, particularly when you nurse if you're breast-feeding.1999, Pamela Maraldo, Women's health for dummies. From the entry periodlike
• Usually packed, this cramped and noisy cellar bar has excellent sakuski; gypsy music.1995, Birgit Borowski, Bernhard Pollman, translated by Brenda Ferris, James Hogarth, and Julie Waller, “Restaurants”, in Moscow…. From the entry sakuska
• You can get a brain cramp, which is how marathon ruminations are lost.1991 November 3, Robert Lipsyte, “Sports: Backtalk—Imaginations Running Wild Through the City”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Nov 2011. From the entry brain cramp
• Bony jumped down and unlimbered his cramped muscles before going after his camels.1963, Arthur Upfield, The Lake Frome Monster, London: Pan Books, published 1969, page 111. From the entry unlimber
• Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358. From the entry inevitability
• I didn't last for more than one round—my game leg cramped me, I suppose.1924 July, John Buchan, “Sir Archibald Roylance Puts His Foot in It”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 212. From the entry pug
• I wrote until my fingers were cramped and my head was empty.1919, Arthur Stringer, “The Nile-green Roadster”, in The Man Who Couldn’t Sleep, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page…. From the entry logorrhea
• "Stomach cramps and I have the squirts." he lied.2022 January 22, W.R. Benton, The Hangin' Judge, Loose Cannon. From the entry the squirts
• I could not correctly estimate what I was experiencing, and the strychnine in the STP began cramping my belly.2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 128. From the entry STP
• Asked after the match if Djokovic had been play-acting the symptoms of cramp, Murray replied “I don't know.2020 September 6, Simon Briggs, “Novak Djokovic possesses a volcanic intensity but sometimes that fire shows itself in unflattering ways”…. From the entry play-act
• Peter set off at a run, his feet skiffling up sand, his muscles cramping , his bones shrieking .2018, Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming. From the entry skiffle
• He replaced McNair because of cramp in the last few minutes, and was essentially meat in the room.2015 December 14, Alexander Netherton, “Player Ratings: Bournemouth 2-1 Manchester United”, in The Busby Babe. From the entry meat in the room
• His knee was cramped and rugburned, but so what?2015, Jennifer Ashley, Adam, JA / AG Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry rugburned
• Rusty wrought-iron gates and cramped once-painted wooden enclosures bordered and defined scrabbly little plots of Astroturf and overgrown weeds.2014, Denise Chávez, The King and Queen of Comezón, →ISBN, page 276. From the entry scrabbly
• In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped.2011, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, A Shore Thing. From the entry peach
• There’s a little guy sitting padmasana on the hood, there in the middle of the concentric rings of cramped white letters.2011, Kip Manley, “Freeway”, in City of Roses, volume 1 (“Wake up…”), Supersticery Press, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry padmasana
• The second ball of his second over is a shortish, straight delivery that Hussey, cramped for room, mispulls straight.2011, Matthew Hancock, Paul Johnson, 766 and All That, page 177. From the entry mispull
• Senators brought television crews into cramped berthings.2009 February 9, Owen West, “An About-Face on Gay Troops”, in New York Times. From the entry berthings
• This was a cramped space, not much bigger than a closet, with an angled ceiling and an unshiftable dank smell.2008 March 9, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times. From the entry unshiftable
• Eighty percent of the 29 staff members reported becoming ill with fever, abdominal cramps or nausea a day or two later.2008, Morton Satin, Food Alert!: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety, page 276. From the entry party-sized

Meaning of cramp

1. noun A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
2. noun That which confines or contracts.
3. noun A clamp for carpentry or masonry.

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Questions about cramp in a sentence

How do you use cramp in a sentence?

Cramp is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.”

What is a short sentence with cramp?

“You're cramping my style.”

What does cramp mean?

Cramp means a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.