straitjacket in English

noun
1
a strong garment with long sleeves that can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.
And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one straitjacket .
verb
1
restrain with a straitjacket.
We have been locked in seclusion, placed in restraints, chemically and physically straitjacketed , lobotomized, shocked and beaten because we protested too much.
noun
    straightjacket

Use "straitjacket" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "straitjacket" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "straitjacket", or refer to the context using the word "straitjacket" in the English Dictionary.

1. the straitjacket of taxation.

2. John, he put in a straitjacket.

3. The government is operating in an economic straitjacket.

4. Beijing may have been put a straitjacket for the Games.

5. They defected because russian dance was in a straitjacket.

6. I spent that night in a straitjacket of fear.

7. To them, the pound is already in a straitjacket.

8. He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.

9. The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.

10. The new playwrights broke out of the old conventional straitjacket.

11. Or is he trussing her up in a golden straitjacket?

12. Guards trussed him in a straitjacket until his limbs became numb.

13. People realize that we lived in a straitjacket for along time.

14. Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.

15. Cameron knew how good his son really was, and encouraged him to break free of the pop straitjacket.

16. However, as no votes have been recorded at these junctures the arithmetic straitjacket has remained largely hidden.

17. Designed for a government of clerks, civil service became a straitjacket in an era of knowledge workers.

18. Budgeting means you’re spending with purpose before the month begins. But many people view a budget as a straitjacket that will keep them from doing what they want

19. We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self- help gurus or other family experts.

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