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
• The platform has vowed to do some belt-tightening and operate more efficiently this year.
  — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
• 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
• But there are also signs that Cannes, synonymous with glamour and lavish parties, may be in belt-tightening mode.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 May 2025
• But Google is also in belt-tightening mode, clamping down on projects companywide that aren’t paying off.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• The idea of shooting a tester episode before committing to paying for an entire season is back in vogue during these belt-tightening times.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There will be belt-tightening, with even more scrutiny around customer experience investments.
  — Jon Picoult, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• The budget gap needed unexpected belt-tightening and spending only on the essentials.
  — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
• But left-wing and far-right lawmakers were opposed to much of the belt-tightening drive and voted a no confidence measure against Barnier's government, bringing it down.
  — Raechel Thankam Job, Reuters, 13 Dec. 2024
• The cutback on temporary workers indicates that companies will continue their belt-tightening ways.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Feb. 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
• 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
• There are signs of belt-tightening abound on Chinese city streets, where diners pack restaurants offering 40 cent breakfasts, and stores hold flash sales and wage price wars with competitors.
  — Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 9 May 2025
• Opponents argue the policy is shrinking the city’s restaurant workforce by forcing belt-tightening and putting establishments out of business.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Owing in part to the company’s belt-tightening efforts, Thurston sold Outside’s Santa Fe offices.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• While software companies generally don’t have a lot of direct tariff exposure, the concern for the group is that belt-tightening from their customers could dampen spending on software and lead to deals taking longer to complete.
  — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
• 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
• School officials have pursued a string of belt-tightening measures, including eliminating more than 400 staff positions in July.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
• Chatter in the market revolved around the reasons for the downturn – rising competition from streaming platforms, consumer belt-tightening and hesitance on the part of investors and studios – as well as possible solutions.
  — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Some industries are correcting after the hiring boom of the pandemic, but this comes as AI adoption, softening consumer and corporate spending, and rising costs drive belt-tightening and hiring freezes.
  — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025