padded cell
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"Should I feel anything?" asks the beady-eyed man, sitting in a padded cell with handcuffs around his wrists.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
It is as though the series will inevitably end with the character opening her eyes and the camera slowly panning out to reveal her padded cell.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
The visual expedition begins with the opening credits, which focus on charmingly quilted satin walls that invoke a nursery crossed with a padded cell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
“It was in the padded cell that it dawned on me that I would be there for life, that I’d be buried in a mass grave; there were whispers that went around,” she recalls now.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
They'd lock me up in a padded cell for sure.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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