"It is not always poverty, though they are good at making the best of straitened circumstances."

His father died a short time later, leaving a widow and five children in straitened circumstances.

Even in her straitened circumstances, she had a little power.

He didn't attain much glory and lived in straitened circumstances.

There is evidence that sons make considerable efforts to provide support for their parents even when they are in straitened circumstances themselves.

It was true that his hotel pointed to the most straitened circumstances.

His family's straitened financial circumstances forced him to go to work as an office boy for an insurance company at the age of 15.

In the interests of our work we are living in straitened circumstances.

The father died when the eldest son was six years of age, leaving the mother and three small children in straitened circumstances.

His father died in 1886, leaving the young family in straitened circumstances.