How to Use straitjacket in a Sentence

straitjacket

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  • She's soon taken away in a straitjacket and sent to jail.
    — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 3 June 2020
  • As a bonus, the winning bidder also took home the white straitjacket and white gloves worn by Van Halen in the video.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Last but not least, Rule 5, which, in my opinion, is a straitjacket.
    — Sheena Iyengar, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Across from me, my friend has her raincoat wrapped around her like a straitjacket.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2019
  • This is their way to get around the financial straitjacket.
    — Don Thompson, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2017
  • One such straitjacket is the mass of the Higgs boson detected at the LHC.
    — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
  • Jay keeps the straitjacket on all night, even as his name is called at the rose ceremony.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • He had been shot in the leg and was in a hospital when he was tied in a straitjacket, thrown out a window and stabbed with ice picks by a mob.
    — al, 22 Oct. 2019
  • George Clooney still compares his turn at the Bat to being fitted for a straitjacket.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Hoover Dam made the modern West, but also confined it in a straitjacket.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The Seminoles and other teams have studied the ACC’s grant of rights and aren’t convinced there isn’t some way to escape that straitjacket.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • According to reports, Jonathan was hanging from his feet 40 feet in the air in a straitjacket.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 2022
  • That’s where Mona Lisa (Jeon Jong-seo), a catatonic waif, is seated on her knees in a straitjacket.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The straitjacket is part of his lesson plan almost every year.
    — The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Lau has short, punky hair and wore a surgical mask and a thrift-store jacket with straitjacket-style buckles.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • But what will give them permission to rage against the straitjacket that has arrived, gigantic and blonde, to take its place?
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
  • This is not such a tight straitjacket: Yorkshire's beef and lamb are renowned, and its produce is bountiful.
    — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Against Trump in 2016, Jeb’s straight-lacedness turned into a straitjacket.
    — Dan Zak, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • While the plane sat on the runway in Senegal, ICE agents allegedly kicked, struck, choked, and dragged some detainees down the aisle and put others in straitjackets.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 19 Dec. 2017
  • As guests look on, Goldrake, wrapped in a straitjacket and dangling upside down, is submerged in a tank of water.
    — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • But the movie never busts out of its tame, slightly cheeky straitjacket, and the smoothness of its execution can be a bit cozy at times.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Still, the Astros managed to writhe out of the straitjacket that entangled Morton.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2018
  • But for 17-year-old Jem Starling, their values are starting feel like a straitjacket.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • By the way, straitjackets aren't used in modern psychiatric medicine.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Clad in a straitjacket, he was sandwiched between two cars suspended 70 feet in the air, which then burst into flames.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Williams denied the allegation, but the 23-year-old was bound in a straitjacket and thrown out the hospital window.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Davis threatened to put the inmate in a straitjacket but instead belly-chained J.B.’s wrists to his waist and shackled his ankles.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 25 May 2022
  • And all ideas for a substantial budget to help countries in the straitjacket of the euro adjust to shocks have been rejected.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • During the Victorian age, language was forced into a straitjacket of right or wrong on both sides of the Atlantic.
    — Florence Hazrat, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And the show cuts several sequences from the film, including a sensationalist scene in which Joe, at rock bottom, is committed to a sanitarium, wrapped in a straitjacket and pinned down as orderlies sedate him.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024

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