Example Sentences

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Humanmade levees, dikes and other flood-control measures act like straitjackets on these rivers.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

As Geoff Dyer stresses in his penetrating introduction, Lawrence ignores genre straitjackets as he blends travel writing, memoir, philosophical musings, storytelling and a novelist’s flair for portraiture and description.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2019

There were straitjackets that looked like giant coveralls, straitjacket smocks, straitjacket anoraks.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2019

To start: Immobile models were conveyed down a moving runway wearing white canvas straitjackets - the most extreme expression of the uniforms that Alessandro Michele called “a strong sign of oppression.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 22, 2019

She learns surveillance techniques, performs backflips, and masters the removal of handcuffs and straitjackets.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart