straitjacket

Hopkins wore this orange prison uniform, straitjacket and muzzle when Lecter is transported under heavy security, strapped upright to a hand truck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Opinion is divided on whether these are sensible building blocks for the economy which allow living standards to improve, or a "dysfunctional" economic straitjacket.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

We would stop trying to straitjacket this into something more predictable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Locking money into a restricted account felt like voluntarily returning to the kind of financial straitjacket they just escaped, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

I looked over at the next desk and saw a girl sitting there, also wearing a straitjacket.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

These included freeing himself from chains, ropes, and straitjackets under water.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

Humanmade levees, dikes and other flood-control measures act like straitjackets on these rivers.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

He also became an escape artist in the manner of Harry Houdini, thrilling crowds by extricating himself from straitjackets, bank safes and jails.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2020

There were straitjackets that looked like giant coveralls, straitjacket smocks, straitjacket anoraks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

Straitlaced people who go over the edge may find themselves in straitjackets.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

It’s the one that feels most weirdly and defiantly its own thing, the one least straitjacketed by Marvel conventions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Chastain may not wear a corset, but her Nora is straitjacketed all the same.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

These steep-sided, straitjacketed streams lost the ability to spill onto their floodplains and recharge aquifers.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2018

And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

In 1939, as the straitjacketing of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

In other words, Cohen accuses traditional sensory science of artificially straitjacketing tasters in order to achieve a false objectivity.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018

They seemed to enjoy the idea, he added, “that these forces were straitjacketing them, whether it was true or not.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012

The straitjacketing of the Mississippi began with an obnoxious Army engineer named Andrew Humphreys, who lost 3,000 soldiers in the charge at Fredericksburg and later marveled, "I felt more like a god than a man!"

From Time ● May 12, 2011

Though labor and industry grumbled at his straitjacketing of wages and prices, the rise in the cost of living was only 18%, compared to a U.S. rise of 25%.

From Time Magazine Archive