I saluted my rescuer with a roar and followed him as he swooped down on a giant yellow cobra that was constricting my friend. |
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I practically whispered, my throat constricting and my eyes bright with unshed tears. |
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The once bare sandstone buildings are covered with constricting vines, ivies, and mosses. |
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The pythons have around 250 teeth and catch their prey by biting, grabbing, then wrapping themselves around the prey and constricting it. |
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They will kill their prey by wrapping around them and constricting or by pressing them against the burrow walls. |
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When the foreskin becomes trapped behind the corona for a prolonged time, it may form a tight, constricting band of tissue. |
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A hormone secreted by the adrenal gland that raises blood pressure by constricting arteries and increasing heart rate. |
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The snakes also twist while constricting, in order to break the backs of their unfortunate prey. |
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In colder temperatures, the heart tolerates less exertion because the body reacts to cold by constricting small arteries. |
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A tight, constricting pain was setting on her heart, and it unnerved her more than anything, because she knew what it was. |
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Seti's black eyes lit up, and several tentacles were instantly flung around Indigo's torso and chest, constricting like snake coils. |
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The bodice was constricting like a corset that gave lift to my bosom, but thankfully I could still breathe. |
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At one point he even threw away all his underwear, thinking it might have shrunk in the wash and be constricting his leg. |
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What you had always done was to entomb your inner personal centre within the constricting straitjacket of certain words and formulae. |
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Her work with visual art and poetry has been done in a constricting and unsupportive vacuum. |
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Cellulite is a kind of fat tissue in the subcutaneous layer of the skin that contains constricting bands of connective tissue. |
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As I said earlier, New Zealand's and Australia's flocks are constricting, so the supply will start constricting. |
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The Corporation has put in place a restructuring plan to manage the economic downturn that is constricting its resources. |
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For example, patients with vascular rings should have the constricting vessels surgically divided and affixed to other structures to eliminate the impingement on the trachea. |
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I was given tasks and chores to do, more than was humanly possible, and all to be performed while wearing constricting foundation garments, heels and a wig. |
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As soon as the head is delivered, feel around the baby's neck to determine if the cord is wrapped around and constricting the trachea. |
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Then powerfulness means the chains are more constricting, and reliability that they are harder to remove. |
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If his Ethicist gig ever winds up feeling too constricting, he can always launch a column called The Sophist. |
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Some teachers initially disliked the new approach, the superintendent acknowledges, regarding it as too constricting. |
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How would you talk your temples into throbbing and your throat into constricting? |
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In addition, breathlessness can feel constricting and make you feel uneasy and anxious. |
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Yet now Labour, too, talks of constricting benefits, a popular theme because it conjures up two demons: immigrants and welfare scroungers. |
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One of the dangers is that emphasis on propriety and good can be constricting. |
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It works by constricting blood vessels in the lining of the brain, which helps to decrease the pain from migraine headaches. |
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However, Guidoni found the narrow world of show business, where compromise and hypocrisy are common, too constricting for him. |
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The factors responsible for constricting copper redhorse habitats and for lowering their abundance cannot be identified with certainty. |
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The low employment rate, particularly among women and older working-age people, is constricting the EU's growth potential. |
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We need to normalise the aviation sector and do away with the rules constricting its growth. |
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The last image he remembered from that time long ago was two strong hands clutching his throat, squeezing the life out of him, constricting his air flow. |
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It's like my throat is constricting or my lungs aren't working. |
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Both are constricting and reduce the flow of toxins, causing backups. |
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After being cooped up in those constricting nests for months, here they were climbing, diving, spiraling and chattering feverishly, becoming better aeronauts by the minute. |
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And legislated labour repression has compounded the problem, further constricting the workers' fundamental freedoms to form unions and negotiate collective agreements. |
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It is not a constricting force when properly understood and implemented. |
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In many ways, as constricting as my upbringing was at times, now I'm grateful that I had both cultures, not only to enlarge my sense of the world, but to hone myself against. |
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The image of the tremendous fall emerges again in the clean inclined cut of the boundary walls of the church constricting the internal space and obliging it to widen out towards the sky through the skylight-roof. |
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At this stage, the propositions are not constricting but only inciting. |
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There may be a need for legislation in some areas, but we have no need for a host of bureaucratic and constricting rules which bring European cooperation into discredit without producing real results. |
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Excessively formal, constricting agreements are considered by many as a brake on the involvement of civil society and local authorities and as tools that are too bureaucratic and costly. |
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The causes are numerous, from the geographic location too far away from the coast, to too high environmental costs and too constricting security regulations. |
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Your parents make all sorts of constricting choices for you. |
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We must avoid constricting rules that hamper existing schemes. |
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I wrote a pantoum very early on, and that's one of the constricting forms that seemed to paradoxically release your mind, rather than hold it in. |
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The pressure against my throat seemed completely constricting. |
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This requires constricting the pupil with a miotic. |
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He wanted to find a new way of painting that would not be constricting. |
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