straitjacketed
- past participle of straitjacket.
- past tense form of straitjacket.
Example Sentences
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Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
At a time when theater, the fabulous invalid, is straitjacketed by the pandemic, it’s heartening and a little wistful-making to have it recalled in all its messy midcentury glory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Nonetheless, he’s performed yeoman’s work filling out an aging narrative straitjacketed by the exigencies of its author’s legal strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2019
Glass’s lyric setting has often felt straitjacketed by attempts to wedge words into his repetitive musical patterns.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2019
And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.
From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles
