Example Sentences

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Try that as one of 47 straitjacketed senators.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2022

Today, the Mississippi is little more than a massive canal, straitjacketed by earthen walls and traversed by massive freighters moving cargo bound for places as far north as Wisconsin.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 22, 2021

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