Sentence examples for strait jacket from inspiring English sources

They looked at her and placed her in a strait jacket although she struggled wildly.

Apparently he's not even "almost as good" as his brother, as he's been trying to escape from a strait jacket for six and a half minutes.

This was the man who undertook to extricate himself from a strait jacket at the beginning of the evening & was still writhing desperately in the lobby as the audience filed out on its way home.

Sometimes during concerts he dressed up in a strait jacket and metal face mask to appear as Quiet Riot's mascot, which is on the covers of almost all the group's albums.

A number of reforms have gone into effect that have to a certain degree benefitted the people - some semblance of social security & better pay and working conditions - but, as an Argentinian expressed it, "when the people want to reform the reforms of the Perons, they will find they have been reformed into a strait jacket.

Otherwise, the proposed powers would be a "strait jacket" he said.

Now, they arrive at least once a week, sometimes wrapped in body-length strait jackets.

He may have the job from Hell, but I suspect that, even as his some of his colleagues are being trussed up in strait jackets and carted physically from their departments, Darling will leave office with his head held reasonably high.

This melding of comedy and drama makes Flowers an unusual series, in that it doesn't fit easily into any of the banal strait jackets TV often likes to force its shows into.

I don't want to strait-jacket what we think is funny".

A more self-confident Germany is gradually easing itself out of the strait-jacket of its marriage with France.