How to Use straitjacket in a Sentence

straitjacket

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• My wife went into the dressing room with several items, leaving me in charge of Zack, who was strapped into his stroller like a man in a straitjacket.
  — Jim Sollisch, The Mercury News, 18 June 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024