How to Use claustrophobic in a Sentence

claustrophobic

adjective

• The theater can be a little claustrophobic when it's full.
• She doesn't go in elevators because she is claustrophobic.
• There are times when these endless prairies feel downright claustrophobic.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• This place isn't for the claustrophobic: There are no windows, and the beds are narrow and stacked two high.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2018
• From there things get big, with contrasting patches of openness and claustrophobic layers of sound.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• The show at Yummi takes place in a dining room of claustrophobic closeness, with tables crowded together.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2018
• Within the claustrophobic confines of an ancient, dilapidated Mayan tomb, the game finds its true legs.
  — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
• The Serbian mine is terrifyingly claustrophobic; the muddy shores in Suriname couldn’t be more open-air.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• This confirmed Alice’s growing discomfort with their claustrophobic intimacy, and freaked her out.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• Finley originally wrote Thoroughbreds as a stage play, and that comes through in the claustrophobic, contained shots and minimal locations.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Avoid uniformity Uniform colors may become claustrophobic – never paint the entire workplace in the same color.
  — Brian Sodoma and Clare Gersh, azcentral, 19 Apr. 2018
• Conditions can be claustrophobic and animals might get tossed around inside their crates or freak out from strange noises and dark isolation, even suffering anxiety to the point of cardiac arrest.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Wealthy, young New Yorkers, tired of their parents’ formal rituals and claustrophobic parlors, were lured out of private homes to entertain in public.
  — Rebecca Dalzell, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2018
• On the way home, stop off on the northern tip of the island for some heart-stopping cliff jumping and, for the non-claustrophobic in the group, an intrepid swim into the spectacular Blue Caves.
  — Melissa Twigg, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
• The space is tiny and busy but not in a claustrophobic sort of way.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2024
• And that’s where the book leaves them, trapped in that claustrophobic space.
  — Richard Russo, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
• Most of the show seems to be shot on a claustrophobic soundstage—Julio doesn’t see the sky or feel the sun.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 July 2024
• The expanse of the ocean and sky makes the gloomy apartment seem even more claustrophobic.
  — Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
• Others likened the claustrophobic plan for the dorm rooms to prison cells.
  — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2021
• The trailer was dim and claustrophobic, though Rush took care to keep it clean.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• By the time Scott took the stage, Diaz felt claustrophobic.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• To me, the score sounds very claustrophobic, like how teenagers can’t always see over the wall of their own emotions.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• The low ceiling on its top floor felt at once claustrophobic and safe.
  — Isha Marathe, Bon Appétit, 22 Dec. 2022
• The atmosphere is tight, hot, claustrophobic—sweat on the back of your neck.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• The clothes and fashion freed them from the claustrophobic clothes from before.
  — Vogue, 5 Apr. 2019
• Set inside a Texas motel, the tone of the game is hot, sweaty, boxed-in, claustrophobic and chaotic.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• The claustrophobic setting seemed to intensify the egos and fears of the cast.
  — al, 7 Sep. 2019
• And if Fisker adds a third row, the roll-down rear quarter-windows will help make that less claustrophobic.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
• The floor plan includes a full-width rear bathroom that appears to add a little extra space and comfort over the small, claustrophobic bathroom compartments many camper vans have wedged between furnishings.
  — New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
• Shindo’s black-and-white cinematography transforms the vast grasslands into a claustrophobic maze, with characters appearing and disappearing like specters.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024