How to Use straitjacket in a Sentence

straitjacket

noun

• Pierce had his students tie him up in a straitjacket.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
• Across from me, my friend has her raincoat wrapped around her like a straitjacket.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2019
• The icy straitjacket that kept the rocks from collapsing was no longer there.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 May 2026
• Jay keeps the straitjacket on all night, even as his name is called at the rose ceremony.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• Last but not least, Rule 5, which, in my opinion, is a straitjacket.
  — Sheena Iyengar, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
• The straitjacket is part of his lesson plan almost every year.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
• By the way, straitjackets aren't used in modern psychiatric medicine.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Some plaintiffs allege they were restrained in straitjackets for as long as 16 hours.
  — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Pierce wiggled, jumped, twisted, pulled, huffed and puffed his way out of that straitjacket, taking a little bow at the end.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
• And men don’t question the straitjackets into which convention stuffs them.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr., Men's Health, 31 May 2023
• George Clooney still compares his turn at the Bat to being fitted for a straitjacket.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• Mikey struggles to keep up with the two Gucci duffels wrapped around his shoulders like a straitjacket.
  — Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
• Multiple bands of fabric across the body suggest a straitjacket.
  — Natalie Pompilio, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
• Hoover Dam made the modern West, but also confined it in a straitjacket.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• But the peace forged at Dayton bound Bosnia in a straitjacket that has kept it divided since.
  — Adis Maksić, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
• Whether inspired by extreme hikers, skaters, punks, or straitjackets, hanging things have been all over clothes for a few seasons now.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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.
  — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
• Ten days ago, such a statement would have been beyond preposterous, worthy of a straitjacket.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2021
• 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
• They’ve been given permission to rage against the straitjacket of motherhood.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
• 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
• According to reports, Jonathan was hanging from his feet 40 feet in the air in a straitjacket.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 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
• But for 17-year-old Jem Starling, their values are starting feel like a straitjacket.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
• After the campaign, the reporters presented Gold with a straitjacket as an ironic gift.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 10 June 2017
• This is still a vivid depiction of the way a home can be either a comforting cocoon or a suffocating straitjacket.
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
• Still, the Astros managed to writhe out of the straitjacket that entangled Morton.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2018