Sentence examples for two straitjackets from inspiring English sources

"Barbra, do you think that we can change the world with music?/ If a sane man overheard us he'd shout 'Two straitjackets please'/ Because all we've got is music/ It's a wonderful ambition/ But our only ammunition/ Is a bunch of do-re-mis..."....

This trick saw Angel hanging his feet, while bound with two straitjackets and a noose around his neck which were attached to metal weights.

When Richard Byrd set out, in 1928, to establish a camp in Antarctica, his supplies included two coffins and twelve straitjackets.

David Brown, London We say: In the Marx Brothers' final Paramount comedy before Zeppo bowed out and the other three donned designer straitjackets at MGM, they run riot in Freedonia where the incomparable Margaret Dumont installs Groucho as anarchic president.

"I didn't care if she had two broken legs, a straitjacket, crutches, I'd take her first.

In the unlikely event of the Springboks straitjacketing the two of them at suburban Twickenham this afternoon in the way they incarcerated Jonah Lomu and Jeff Wilson on "Nelson Mandela Day" in downtown Johannesburg back in 1995, there will be another match available to Savea and Milner-Skudder next weekend: maybe a grand final, maybe a bronze medal play-off.

Angel is the holder of several world records, including the longest time submerged under water and the fastest time to escape from a straitjacket at two minutes and thirty seconds, the longest body suspension at 5 hours 42 minutes, and the fastest time to perform the "Metamorphosis" illusion at less than one second.

The jury will have to be forced into an "intellectual straitjacket", one law professor suggested.

Yet today, that 72-year-old act has put Mexico in a straitjacket, one that threatens both the welfare of the country and the oil supply of the United States.

If he keeps talking like that, someone is going to put him in a straitjacket one day".

When the American admiral Richard Byrd sailed for Antarctica in 1928 his supplies are said to have included "only two coffins, but a dozen straitjackets".