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How to use straitjacket in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word straitjacket? Here are some examples.

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The author is so keen to break out of the straitjacket of conventional narrative that he forgets to include a plot.
The underdeveloped concept of the international system has acted as a Procrustean straitjacket on the discipline.
We must break through the mental straitjacket and realize that another world is possible.
This is a crude attempt to straitjacket the working class, to prevent it from adopting an independent class viewpoint.
The political straitjacket of the two-party system that has confined the American working class is objectively finished.
I wonder if they'll let me do a Houdini and board the plane in a straitjacket and watertank?
Effie learned they had taken his straitjacket off and unchained his feet after he'd been asleep a few hours.
The empty sleeves are wrapped around the figure and stapled like a straitjacket.
This acts as a straitjacket and means that governments effectively lose control of their own economies.
Sometimes they put me in there without a straitjacket if I'm not too violent.
He was on a gurney, all wrapped up in a straitjacket and his feet were chained together.
Houdini could get out of a glass box full of water in a couple of minutes, even chained up and in a straitjacket.
He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a straitjacket.
My dad asked whether this man should merely be removed from office, or whether he should be placed into a straitjacket immediately after.
I was rescued from ending up on a hospital gurney or in a straitjacket by a combination of clarity and crisis.
Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope.
The escapologist will put up a thousand good reasons to get into a regulation canvas straitjacket and escape within 90 seconds.
The question is whether or not to seek to impose a moral straitjacket on the behaviour of others.
The straitjacket imposed by the pact prevents many of the major European governments from fiscally stimulating their economies.
That is a deliberate attempt to straitjacket the winner of Brazil's presidential election, due in October.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The next minute he was pinned, handcuffed, and in a straitjacket, after crippling one assailant with a kick on the knee.
The straitjacket which German idealism has provided is certainly far too narrow even for the varieties of human imagination.
I always thought him sane enough until today, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a straitjacket.
His first move was to take the straitjacket in his own hands and order me to stand.
You ought to be put in a straitjacket and drenched with cold water.
Then she takes out the straitjacket and goes behind the chair.
His arms were inserted in the long, closed sleeves of the straitjacket.
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