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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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