Roman Reigns

Just getting from the airport straight to the gym is gonna be your best bet to knock off that rust and wake yourself up and get that blood flowing. You sit in a car or a plane cramped up, you lose a lot of blood flow and get that swelling in your legs. There are all kinds of dangers in sitting still too long.

American Wrestler

Nicholas Soames

As the world has grown bigger for our country, the opportunities greater, the chances more glittering for our commerce and our people, too many of those who practice politics have taken a cramped and limited view of Europe and the rest of the world.

British Politician

Marcus Samuelsson

Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you need to endure it. Others are great for after exercising to help you maintain calorie burning, build muscle, and prevent cramping.

Ethiopian Chef

Gabriel Jesus

I played street football from the age of seven and later went into the varzea. Sometimes I'd play as many as three or four matches a day: I couldn't get enough of it. It'd get to the point when my muscles would cramp up.

Brazilian Athlete

Kathryn Prescott

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

English Actress

Rick Nielsen

The only time I have a problem is when I have to get in a vehicle after we play and sit there in a cramped position for a couple of hours to drive to the next place. Then I get super stiff.

American Musician

Jane Levy

Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense.

American Actress

John Mortimer

Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it's a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.

English Novelist

Steven Brust

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

American Author

Sophie Swetchine

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

Russian Author

A cramp is a sharp pain that starts suddenly and is usually intense, making it memorable.

Sudden and Intense

Cramps often occur during exercise, but they can also happen when you're still, especially at night.

Common Activities

While painful, cramps are temporary and usually pass if you stretch or massage the area.

Temporary Discomfort

When cramp is used as a verb, it often appears in passive forms, especially when unwanted.

Passive Construction

The phrase 'cramp one's style' means to limit or restrict someone's usual way of doing things.

Style Interference

The noun 'cramp' can refer to an essential tool in woodworking, useful for DIY enthusiasts.

Carpentry and DIY

Some speakers use 'cramp' and 'clamp' interchangeably, especially in informal contexts.

Similar to Clamp

As a verb, 'cramp' implies restriction that prevents something from growing or developing freely.

Hindered Progress

The phrase 'cramp one's style' can also mean hindering someone's expression or creativity.

Expression and Creativity

 can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish, meaning they can sit quite still at high concentrations. No jostling here. But seeking relief from the cramped conditions they're in, they soon start moving upwards

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 housing and transportation. So in this case, the worm grows up inside the cricket and once it gets a little cramped in there, it wants to come out. And really this worm has a free living part of its life stage. It doesn't live his whole life in the cricket. But the problem is where it comes out,

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 And at the end of five hours, they said that his brain was completely clear and that he was by then extending his legs correctly. And when I asked the pediatrician what had been going on, she said she thought in the morning, he had probably had a cramp. But I thought --

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 and moved inside the walls surrounding their city and port, now provisioned by a superior fleet and extensive maritime empire. The cramped conditions have taken a toll and a recent plague wiped out a third of the population. But city life goes on.

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 He soon came to a cramped cottage, with a woman crumpled outside. Filled with pity, the scholar implored the woman to share her sorrow. She explained that her mother had just died— but no one would help her with the burial.

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 But how do the chicks break out from the cramped confines of the egg? How come the shell that's been strong enough to protect the chick from the outside world, be also weak enough to allow the chick to break it?

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 We want to make it available to anyone who wants to go. It's very important to emphasize that Mars, especially in the beginning, will not be luxurious. It will be dangerous, cramped, difficult, hard work.

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 top universities that must be pretty challenging going there how much of that course were you able to complete it was it was real like challenging when I started it was mostly like he cramping

Catching up with...

 cramped confines of the egg how can the shell that's been strong enough to protect the chick from the outside world be also weak enough to allow the chick to break it

The Miracle of Hatching...

 months ago the world he came into was small and cramped he had fur but his eyes were closed he wasn't any bigger than a guinea pig

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Common Activities

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