Example sentences for: straitjacket

How can you use “straitjacket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I'd say Keyes was one step away from being hauled away in a straitjacket.

  • But you can no longer brush off the argument that the system is a sort of economic straitjacket, one that is becoming increasingly onerous.

  • These are blessings and curses he wrote on charred or otherwise manipulated bits of paper and sent to friends, enemies, and a few public figures (Hitler, for one) in the late 1930s, in the wake of a disastrous trip he took to Ireland, wielding a cane that he believed was the staff of Saint Patrick, from which he returned in a straitjacket.


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