Example Sentences

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It seemed all set to boil into a claustrophobically close finale, just as the pair's meeting in Paris did a year ago.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

The way they’re claustrophobically observed by the camera only throws into relief the bogus nature of this documentary-style soap opera.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

The result is a strange, stylised, claustrophobically dark satirical drama.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2020

As a gray-hair myself, I can’t imagine how I’m going to comfortably attend the Hippodrome, with its claustrophobically tight seating and mob-scene lobby.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2020

I joined the Co-op in 2013, and found it to be claustrophobically crowded, illogically organized, and almost absurdly inconvenient.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019