How to Use cash-strapped in a Sentence

cash-strapped

adjective

• Fentanyl, by contrast, can be smoked easily and efficiently by users who are often cash-strapped and concerned with cost-effectiveness.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 12 Feb. 2026
• When her mother’s Southern offices became overextended and cash-strapped, McKissack Daniel had to make the painful decision to shut them down.
  — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• At this moment, in an industry with a very saturated market, where the streamers are dominating and the broadcasters are a little more cash-strapped, the police procedural continues to do very well.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
• The toll has also generated more than $550 million in revenue for the region's creaky and cash-strapped transit system — exceeding projections, the MTA has said.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
• The toll has also generated more than $550 million in revenue for the region’s creaky and cash-strapped transit system — exceeding projections, the MTA has said.
  — Philip Marcelo, Twin Cities, 3 Mar. 2026
• The pandemic left the YMCA cash-strapped and the prospect of a developer bulldozing the camp energized generations of residents and Wewa alumni seeking to save it.
  — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
• With the country cash-strapped, the Arab Spring of 2011 set off a wave of mass migration into Europe, which coincided with the widespread perception that the extra numbers were placing further strains on already creaking resources of jobs, housing and healthcare.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 23 June 2026
• In the early 1980s, when the Dialogue was founded, Latin America’s biggest economies — Argentina, Brazil and Mexico — were cash-strapped, debt-ridden and beholden to the IMF.
  — Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026