Similar words: straight ticket, straight, straighten, straightaway, straight line, straighten up, straight angle, straightforward. Meaning: n. a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person.
Random good picture Not show
1. It was like being in a straightjacket.
2. The parliamentary straightjacket which the Labour Party had placed itself in was inimical to violent change.
3. Refusing the straightjacket of political totalitarianism only to put on the straightjaket of religious conservative totalitarianism merely changes the design of the gag not its effectiveness.
4. Some may say that this concept will straightjacket future maintainers of the code, keeping them from being able to extend the code.
5. Diagnosis can also sometimes be used to straightjacket patients into ill- defined and ill-fitting categories that lend a scientific appearance to socially constructed biases.
6. You can't straightjacket artists and have them compete like athletes.
7. He once escaped from a straightjacket while hanging high in the air, upside down, from a crane.
8. At other times, he wore a straightjacket, like the kind used in mental hospitals to restrain patients.
9. Diagnosis can also sometimes be used to straightjacket patients into ill-defined and ill-fitting categories that lend a scientific appearance of socially constructed biases.
10. But in practice, for the great majority of schools, the selection procedure acted as a straightjacket.
10. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
11. Instead of forcing all Unicode characters into a 2-, 3-, or 4-byte straightjacket, UTF-8 admits 1-byte (8-bit) to 4-byte encodings.
12. Rafa Benitez has always been a fan of Silva but the financial straightjacket he works in at Anfield is likely to prohibit any deal.
13. The Italian press has slammed what they claim is a return to the bureaucratic straightjacket of the Mussolini era.
14. Or could China's quest for international audiences lead to a loosening of the tight censorship rules that continue to straightjacket its reporting?
15. The policy of the annually balanced budget represents a rigid straightjacket.
More similar words: straight ticket, straight, straighten, straightaway, straight line, straighten up, straight angle, straightforward, keep a straight face, jacket, life jacket, hijacker, racket, packet, bracket, tracked, jack of all trades, straits, strain, strait, fight back, restrain, strained, strainer, constrain, distraint, restraint, just right, overstrain, constraint.