strait
noun
Often straits. a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
straitness
-
a word derived from
strait.
Example Sentences
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For this brilliant woman, who was writing poems at six and French dramas at 10, and whose first book was published at 14, “the straitness of my prison” was becoming intolerable.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2021
Puritan, yet of no ascetic strain Or arid straitness, freshening as the rain And healthy as the clod; a native force Incult yet quickening, cleaving its straight course Unchecked, unchastened, conquering to the end.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 by Various
There was also a certain straitness in his income which confined him to the paths shared by the needy and the pure at heart.
From The Hero by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
For besides Allah, I have you.––Oh, this straitness of the chest is going to kill me.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
Ay, my Larva-Hermit, with all his bigotry and straitness of soul, stands higher than most of your artists and poets and musicians of the present day.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
