Example Sentences

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Nor, he contended, should one try to create new powers through interpretation of the document's phrases, for the Constitution "was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers."

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay, it is already linked up even more straitly.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

For the eternal roads run straitly, and their running is between gateless walls.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

The noble then privately sending for him, straitly questioned him, whence he came, promising to do him no harm on that account if he would frankly confess who he was.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

For it must be remembered that these simple, God-fearing fisher-folk had been strictly and straitly reared in a creed which regarded dancing as one of the deadly sins.

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston