The word "claustrophobic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who has an extreme fear of being in enclosed or crowded spaces. For example, "John feels an overwhelming sense of claustrophobia whenever he takes the bus to work."
I pictured Baghdad as Black Hawk Down's Mogadishu, all claustrophobic and high-contrast gun battles with desperate men in dark alleys, and mostly I heard Ride of the Valkyries, that grim killing opus in Apocalypse Now, retrofitted for our urban assaults and nighttime raids.
In her new novel, Frog Music, Emma Donoghue, author of Room, about a mother and son held captive, "has stuck with a claustrophobic setting", according to Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard.
Fremantle's narrow home win against Port Adelaide was, if anything, slightly better than we'd hoped and Monday's Hawthorn-Geelong blockbuster started as expected - a claustrophobic, high-intensity shoot-out - before the Hawks unlocked their turbo-mode capabilities and killed it off as a contest.
Theatres were unbearably claustrophobic; cinemas barely less so.
Open Tues-Sat 1pm-6pm In the converted living room of a ground floor house in a typically claustrophobic Amsterdam street, Esther Koch and Hans Bos have taken their fascination for the surreal and avant garde and created a superb showcase for today's top international lowbrow and underground art.
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The maximum-security cells are even more claustrophobic – tight boxes where you can almost stretch your arms and touch both walls at the same time.
However, the design was let down in places - there are 48 rooms, more than the old Tophams, and narrow corridors made the walk to our room feel rather claustrophobic, more Weston-super-Mare boarding house than boutique hotel.
Psychiatric wards can be pretty claustrophobic places.
Alternatively, during the socialist era between 1947 and 1991, Indian firms faced claustrophobic restrictions from the state and tended to expand in any direction where they could get air.
"In the Mood for Love" also carried off the "technicians'" prize for its designer and photographers including Christopher Doyle, an Australian veteran who confined the players in claustrophobic Hong Kong apartments seen through doorways like Sickert paintings.Just an hour and 38 minutes long, this was orientalism "lite".
