How to Use belt-tightening in a Sentence

belt-tightening

noun
  • Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
    — Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Kane County has been on a belt-tightening budget for many years.
    — Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
  • This marks a shift away from the belt-tightening policies that have been in place since 2010 and toward economic stimulus.
    — Yun Sun, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This marks a shift away from the belt-tightening policies that have been in place since 2010 and toward economic stimulus.
    — Yun Sun, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Google has been on a belt-tightening, price-raising mission for about a year now, and part of that has involved across-the-board subscription price increases.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The deficit's history and Trump's record managing it during his first term were not mentioned amid Musk's belt-tightening plea.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The platform has vowed to do some belt-tightening and operate more efficiently this year.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But Google is also in belt-tightening mode, clamping down on projects companywide that aren’t paying off.
    — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
  • This time around, the space appears to have been hit with a general belt-tightening following a rosier stretch coming out of the pandemic, not to mention that the genre has been light on breakout hits in recent years.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2023
  • With studios in belt-tightening mode as streaming services struggle for profitability, the climate isn’t likely to change.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
  • Going into last year’s Sundance, there was concern that belt-tightening among the studios and the aftershocks of two Hollywood strikes would dampen the appetite for indie film purchases.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Gloria imposed a series of belt-tightening measures in November, weeks after voters rejected a sales-tax measure that would have raised $400 million a year in new revenue.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • But the looming threat of a debt crisis and the absence of viable new financing alternatives have encouraged some countries to take preventive belt-tightening measures.
    — Shantayanan Devarajan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Beignets are a Mardi Gras tradition stemming from when Catholics, in anticipation of the belt-tightening season of Lent, would use up all of their sugary and indulgent ingredients.
    — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
  • Apple, the world’s most valuable company, began a belt-tightening effort last July, when galloping inflation and recession fears spurred it to take a more cautious stance.
    — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The Ravens had to make difficult belt-tightening decisions, most notably cutting veteran defensive end Calais Campbell to create $7 million in salary cap space.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions.
    — James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Whether than means a resumption of general manager A.J. Preller’s freewheeling ways or continued belt-tightening remains to be seen.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Because Waymo’s founding vision is based deeply on people-carrying, in a time of belt-tightening Waymo must deliver on robotaxi.
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The new government is expected to introduce an era of financial belt-tightening and stricter immigration policies.
    — Johanna Lemola, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • Budget tightening After years of surplus revenues, Tennessee is likely due for some belt-tightening amid a string of underperforming months.
    — Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 8 Jan. 2024
  • There will be belt-tightening, with even more scrutiny around customer experience investments.
    — Jon Picoult, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The cutback on temporary workers indicates that companies will continue their belt-tightening ways.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Last month, Columbia’s medical school implemented a hiring freeze and other belt-tightening measures in anticipation of the cuts.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Last month, Columbia’s medical school implemented a hiring freeze and other belt-tightening measures in anticipation of the cuts.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • This unease may lead to cautious hiring practices and belt-tightening measures, such as potential layoffs, particularly in sectors undergoing digital transformation.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • This unease may lead to cautious hiring practices and belt-tightening measures, such as potential layoffs, particularly in sectors undergoing digital transformation.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Other belt-tightening measures include eliminating corporate first- and business-class travel, as well as pausing spending on outside consultants, charitable contributions, and advertising and marketing.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024

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