padded cell
Example Sentences
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It is as though the series will inevitably end with the character opening her eyes and the camera slowly panning out to reveal her padded cell.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2025
The visual expedition begins with the opening credits, which focus on charmingly quilted satin walls that invoke a nursery crossed with a padded cell.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
There was talk of his finally escaping the padded cell of convention and expertise that had half-contained his presidency.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2018
In this new series, Ives undergoes counselling with an alienist psychotherapist, and later appears in a padded cell with tears streaming down her face, hissing ominously at her doctors: “You think you know evil?”
From The Guardian • May 3, 2016
They'd lock me up in a padded cell for sure.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
