Use "straiten" in a sentence

1. It is to expel those foreign capitals from a trade which their own grows every day more and more insufficient for carrying on, that the Spaniards and Portuguese endeavour every day to straiten more and more the galling bands of their absurd monopoly

2. they that seek their lives, shall straiten them

3. flesh of his friend in the siege and straightness, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall straiten them

4. There shall come to you days when your enemies shall encompass you and straiten you from every quarter and shall get possession of you and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you a stone on another; because you knew not the time of your visitation

5. This being true, would it be the wisdom of God, the Great Almighty, to make a selection of a group of people obedient to Him, in order that they just spend their nights at people’s houses in such a way as to straiten them in their livelihood, to eat their food and drink their drinks, and moreover, to stand in the way of their attendance at meetings of goodness and knowledge? He said to himself: “In all probability, this man is just a sly liar that exploits the simplicity of people! So, he intrudes upon their dining tables and their houses, masked by any name and character that he likes”