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  • Sharks, Connor once read, have a deadly form of claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • Pillsbury lay panting in the darkness, listening to the bombs coming, feeling claustrophobic, his mind flashing with images of bombs entombing them.†   (source)
  • He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family.†   (source)
  • An onrushing sense of claustrophobia stifled him, compressed his lungs, as if water filled their cavities.†   (source)
  • The constantly broken-down elevators forced residents to climb claustrophobic, urine-scented stairways.†   (source)
  • When it is dark, the darkness is claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • These walkways were called cloisters, and Langdon noted with uneasiness that these particular cloisters lived up to their Latin ties to the word claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Now the dorm seemed so small and claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • I got a little …. claustrophobic the first night, and I was desperate to get outside.†   (source)
  • Not claustrophobic people, Tris!†   (source)
  • Since Thomas was born, he and Treena had moved into the bigger room, and I was in the box room, which was small enough to make you feel claustrophobic should you sit in it for more than half an hour at a time.†   (source)
  • You also have to be someone who would like being on their own in a tiny spacecraft thousands and thousands of miles away from the surface of the earth and not panic or get claustrophobia or homesick or insane.†   (source)
  • He pushes the door shut behind me and I immediately feel the air change, grow close and claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • When I complained about church, I complained about the usual things a kid complains about: the claustrophobia, the boredom.†   (source)
  • The stupidity and claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • The hair on his arms prickles: claustrophobia and bad energy are already pressing him down.†   (source)
  • Already jam-packed with computers and equipment, the cramped space had turned positively claustrophobic with the many spectators now squeezing into it.†   (source)
  • To this day he is claustrophobic, holding his breath in elevators, feels pent-up in cars unless the windows are open on both sides.†   (source)
  • Talking to Ben could make me feel a little claustrophobic sometimes, and I wasn't even a hot girl.†   (source)
  • A wave of claustrophobia closed in on him.†   (source)
  • His words throw me for a loop and I'm suddenly feeling claustrophobic and sweaty.†   (source)
  • There was no point dwelling on my unreasoning horror of a large public wedding—enclosed spaces, claustrophobia, sudden movements, phobic triggers everywhere, for some reason the subway didn't bother me so much it had more to do with crowded buildings, always expecting something to happen, the puff of smoke, the fast-running man at the crowd's margin, I couldn't even bear being in a movie theater if there were more than ten or fifteen people in it, I would turn around with my fully paid…†   (source)
  • Dart's mind, though, was as clear and sharp as a needle of ice and miles and years away from this claustrophobic space.†   (source)
  • The feeling of claustrophobia is externalized as dislike for the people you happen to be shut in with.†   (source)
  • At times he glared at the dark, claustrophobic houses and wished that he were free of the city.†   (source)
  • It was hot, muggy, and claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • I always remembered that, and I think that's why I'm claustrophobic today, because I didn't know what death was.†   (source)
  • Also, I felt claustrophobic and hot.†   (source)
  • I felt claustrophobic in the cave, beside Kate, in this suffocating forest.†   (source)
  • She felt she was being tickled, pushed out of control, then felt claustrophobic, panicky enough to want to leap up and run.†   (source)
  • It was only Hrothgar's claustrophobic mead hall with the monster waiting in the darkness without.†   (source)
  • His claustrophobia revealed itself in the way he played the game: standing up looking for the best view, refusing to bend over and get down in the dirt with the other players, preferring the long and open outside route to the quarterback over the short, tight inside one.†   (source)
  • Claustrophobia†   (source)
  • She wouldn't have done any of these things in claustrophobic old Pittman, Kentucky.†   (source)
  • We followed our guide single file—the aisle was not wide enough for two—fighting back the claustrophobia of these platforms rising everywhere above us.†   (source)
  • And there is often a sense of transcendent claustrophobia, of a shortening horizon, and always a sense of struggle against the tyranny of circumstance—often depicted as a never named sinister male figure who looms.†   (source)
  • I worry that Nathaniel will feel out of place or claustrophobic, but we're here now, heading up the stairs to the artists' entrance.†   (source)
  • This gives me claustrophobia, so I use it only in the rain, which otherwise at high speed stings your face like needles.†   (source)
  • But liberated from claustrophobic closeness by day, exploring apart, they converged with more warmth at night, even if sometimes this warmth felt like that between relatives rather than between lovers.†   (source)
  • It almost seemed like the Underworld, because I immediately felt claustrophobic and I couldn't see the sky above–just a close, heavy darkness, as if I were in a cave.†   (source)
  • He wondered how claustrophobic it must have felt working down here—especially if you were trying to push a wheelchair or a gurney along this narrow hall.†   (source)
  • I'll admit that there's a cluttered extravagance to the house that some might find claustrophobic—the journalist who came to the house wandered from room to room with her mouth agape—but my home is clean.†   (source)
  • Toss-and-Turn Night Bone-oven hot outside, swamp-cooler cool three feet up the hallway, temperature in Dad's claustrophobic guest room: lukewarm.†   (source)
  • This was not a fun place to be if you happened to have a touch of claustrophobia—sitting in a pitch-black Level 4 closet while wearing a space suit.†   (source)
  • A low ceiling gave the room an air of intimacy verging on the claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • It makes me a little claustrophobic, that's all, to imagine staying in this house forever.†   (source)
  • Feeling a little short of breath and claustrophobic I asked, "Do we ever get out of here?"†   (source)
  • Jack said, "Getting claustrophobic, are you?"†   (source)
  • She had her hair done fashionably and wore sexy clothes, seeking the diversions of boys to escape the claustrophobia of her home.†   (source)
  • Some guys freaked out during the testing— the claustrophobia, air pressure, or both got to them.†   (source)
  • I felt claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • The claustrophobic ravine walls widened then folded out into the distance, rising into a ring of snow-capped giants that surrounded the Skardu Valley.†   (source)
  • I started to feel claustrophobic, like I had to get out of there.†   (source)
  • The room had the unnatural, claustrophobic look of a wake.†   (source)
  • I was really good at it, primarily because I, unlike most kids of four or five, had the then-peculiar ability to be extremely quiet for long periods of time, and also because I suffered from absolutely no trace of anything resembling claustrophobia: I could wedge myself into the smallest rear-closet crawl space and stay there for twenty or thirty minutes, not making a sound, having the time of my life.†   (source)
  • Or maybe I was just stressed out and getting claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Her parents' three-room house in the neighborhood of Mylapore, very near the temple, had seemed spacious to her as a girl, but on this visit if felt claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • From the eighteenth-story windows, I can see the afternoon sun bathing the city in a warm glow, making New York feel cozy somehow, but making the suite feel claustrophobic and hot.†   (source)
  • The solitude became more and more claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • The cabin became as claustrophobic as any coal mine deep beneath the surface of the earth.†   (source)
  • "I'm claustrophobic," I said.†   (source)
  • And the fatigue and the heat and the claustrophobia are all forgotten as these 250,000 people strain to hear his every word.†   (source)
  • Maybe I had a touch of claustrophobia after all.†   (source)
  • An aunt of mine remembers his coming to dinner and continually breaking into song, but many of his dark claustrophobic pieces in Residence on Earth were written here, poems that saw this landscape governed by a crowded surrealism—full of vegetable oppressiveness.†   (source)
  • His helmet was insufferably claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • The front hall still smelled of coffee and toast, which ordinarily struck her as cozy but today made her feel claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • I'm not claustrophobic, but when I open the door and walk back into my room, I feel like I can breathe again.†   (source)
  • My claustrophobia threatened to kick in.†   (source)
  • Nadine had never considered herself claustrophobic, but the industrial beige walls were awfully close together, making her rethink the notion.†   (source)
  • Once I had light, cubic shrank to true claustrophobic dimensions and ten percent smaller, and I took a look at Prof.†   (source)
  • He appeared to have a touch of claustrophobia and a major case of missing home.†   (source)
  • My mouth and eyes were soon full of sand and I was beginning to suffer from claustrophobia, for the tunnel was just big enough to admit me.†   (source)
  • Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in…†   (source)
  • It gave me claustrophobia when he was standing.†   (source)
  • A lovely phosphorescence enveloped her face as the train plunged toward sunlight, out of the claustrophobic tunnel and into the marshy maritime reaches of south Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • Ever had claustrophobia?†   (source)
  • I vacationed there for a couple of weeks one time, and although I discovered claustrophobic tendencies of which I had previously been unaware, it was still quite pleasant.†   (source)
  • Is it claustrophobia, fear of crowds, or common sense?†   (source)
  • He suffered from claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • Unable to grasp the benefits of the inflatable chamber and terrified of it, Ngawang asked that a Buddhist lama be summoned, and before consenting to being zipped into its claustrophobic interior, he requested that prayer books be placed in the bag with him.   (source)
    claustrophobic = causing fear of being closed in a confined space
  • ...as he tossed in his bed, the sheet twisted around him like a shroud, suffocatingly. He fought the sheet, filled suddenly with the terror of claustrophobia, being buried alive.   (source)
    claustrophobia = abnormal fear of being closed in a confined space
  • Sometimes that room, huge as it was, made me feel claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon's claustrophobia gripped him more tightly with every hastening step of their descent.†   (source)
  • The room was soon crowded, though never claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • The claustrophobic tunnels, foul air, suffocating darkness on all sides.†   (source)
  • He suddenly felt closed in and claustrophobic; he wanted to get out.†   (source)
  • The passage was cramped, but he felt no claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, there was a simple explanation: Taylor was claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • He felt an irrational bout of claustrophobia settling in.†   (source)
  • For the first time in days I felt my sense of claustrophobia lift.†   (source)
  • Like, is it possible to be claustrophobic and yet fear open spaces, too? I mean, elevators panic me.†   (source)
  • The sun has disappeared and the clouds are low, pressing downward, almost claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • The air was heavier here, and Langdon was already feeling claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • A familiar claustrophobic feeling settled over him.†   (source)
  • It felt claustrophobic, tomblike, coffinlike.†   (source)
  • It's bad enough without claustrophobia, so please … please … please.†   (source)
  • It was all over, and yet now her life felt more claustrophobic than ever.†   (source)
  • Plus, there was the whole cooped-up, claustrophobia issue.†   (source)
  • The clouds pushed down with an invisible weight that kept the claustrophobia from easing.†   (source)
  • It's like the opposite of claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • But I began to get a kind of claustrophobia about two years ago.†   (source)
  • Your mother didn't tell me you were claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Already Jared's mind was far, far away from this claustrophobic corridor.†   (source)
  • The feel of their shoulders rubbing against mine made me feel claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Nabbi's restored my faith in dwarves, because it was in fact a claustrophobic tunnel.†   (source)
  • After the claustrophobic tunnels, the size of the warehouse took Reyna's breath away.†   (source)
  • I imagine it's hard to feel claustrophobic here."†   (source)
  • At least street stands weren't as claustrophobia inducing as enclosed stores.†   (source)
  • It was a good thing I wasn't claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Feeling more than a little claustrophobic, I moved into the space they'd created between them.†   (source)
  • She felt mildly claustrophobic and also transparent, as if the boy could see right into her mind.†   (source)
  • "If you have any tendency to claustrophobia, consider it now," he said.†   (source)
  • The claustrophobic feeling began to overwhelm Jonathan.†   (source)
  • Before the claustrophobia of winter closed in, Korphe's people lived as much as possible outdoors.†   (source)
  • The claustrophobic feeling built inside Jonathan.†   (source)
  • I got claustrophobic just thinking about it.†   (source)
  • Captain Haines was not a man who would get claustrophobia and go into a panic in a space suit.†   (source)
  • The little room was too crowded, claustrophobic, as Ian came to stand with his hand on my shoulder.†   (source)
  • So far, he had not felt any claustrophobia or panic.†   (source)
  • I'd always thought of hotel corridors as dark, depressing, and claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia-the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.†   (source)
  • It's more than the reinforced elevator, or the claustrophobia of being so far underground, or the caustic smell of antiseptic.†   (source)
  • -who authorized his huge pyramid, agreed to the burial chamber being deep under the center of the thing, and then lay awake nights for years in a claustrophobic panic, thinking of all those tons of stone above him for all eternity.†   (source)
  • I tried to heed Rob's advice, but my latent claustrophobia prevailed. When I clamped the mask over my nose and mouth I kept imagining that it was suffocating me, so after a miserable hour I took it off and spent the rest of the night without gas, breathlessly flopping and fidgeting, checking my watch every twenty minutes to see if it was time to get up yet.†   (source)
  • The apparent impossibility of sustaining unobnoxious behavior for even part of the day weighs heavily on the lad, and overwhelms him with a claustrophobia as impenetrable as the claustrophobia of church itself.†   (source)
  • Nobody wants to know that sometimes I feel so claustrophobic, being in this chair, I just want to scream like a madman at the thought of spending another day in it.†   (source)
  • At least I am no longer in the claustrophobic tube, while the machines click and whir around me, listening to a disembodied voice telling me to hold still while I try to convince myself I can still breathe.†   (source)
  • When forced to sit for long stretches through lectures and instruction, he was fidgety and unsure of himself, his mind wandered and he felt claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Connor reaches out and finds Hayden's shoe, squeezing it—the closest thing to a greeting in the claustrophobic darkness.†   (source)
  • I'm claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Claustrophobia was part of it, helpless confinement within a process of decay, and a sensation of shrinking.†   (source)
  • The going never gets exceedingly difficult, but the fifteen-foot-high tangle of alder pressing in from both sides is gloomy, claustrophobic, oppressive.†   (source)
  • As the claustrophobic panic closed in, Langdon was overcome by images of the sarcophagus shrinking around him.†   (source)
  • It's a slang term for the claustrophobic reaction that can occur when people are shut in together over long periods of time.†   (source)
  • But it should buy you your freedom, both from that claustrophobic little town we both call home and from the kinds of choices you have so far felt you had to make.†   (source)
  • It did make me feel claustrophobic, the hydrium bags hovering above me, rustling against my back as I crawled beneath them.†   (source)
  • For my mother, our trips to Sawyer Depot were serene occasions—fresh air and girl-talk with Aunt Martha, and some doubtless needed relief from what must have been the claustrophobia of her life with Grandmother and Lydia and the maids at 80 Front Street.†   (source)
  • I might get claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • It struck him then that the recreation room was almost like a vault; he had always felt mildly claustrophobic in the room.†   (source)
  • Are you claustrophobic?†   (source)
  • You claustrophobic?†   (source)
  • I knew what he was thinking: We all tend to get a little claustrophobic, a little paranoid when we're around lots of people.†   (source)
  • Baby makes three, and even though he's little, his presence in this cramped one-bedroom makes the place even more claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Leo could still see open sky above him, but claustrophobia started to set in, making it hard for him to breathe.†   (source)
  • Claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • For the first time he felt a claustrophobic hand touch him, and the urge to get out, to get free of this living burial, was strong and nearly undeniable.†   (source)
  • The idea fills me with claustrophobic panic: a school with nothing in it but girls would be like a trap.†   (source)
  • I stared into the foyer—a sunlit colonnade of white stone and glass skylights that still managed to make me feel claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Barred windows lined the top of one wall, facing the street level, but that just made the cellar feel more claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • With claustrophobic tunnels and—†   (source)
  • Her claustrophobic prison.†   (source)
  • The path beneath our feet continued to slant downward, taking us deeper into the ground, and it made me claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Though the forest had begun to seem claustrophobic, he was now reluctant to forsake the crowding greenery for the revelation that lay beyond.†   (source)
  • I'm a little claustrophobic," I said.†   (source)
  • The thought made him claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Inducing claustrophobic panic by cutting off his air supply is also a simple but effective disciplinary technique.†   (source)
  • I started to feel closed in by the small room, claustrophobic, upset by the fact that I couldn't see out the curtained windows.†   (source)
  • The third floor was largely devoted to the newsroom, which had been subdivided into a maze of somewhat claustrophobic modular workstations, so that the entire space could not be seen at once.†   (source)
  • I'm not afraid of dark nor of tight places; it takes a department store elevator on Dollar Day to give me claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • She detested New York subway trains for their grime and their noise, but even more for the claustrophobic nearness of so many human bodies, the rushhour jam and jostle of flesh which seemed to neutralize, if not to cancel out, the privacy she had sought for so long.†   (source)
  • Rupert's fine," replied Jan. He sends his best wishes, and says he'd love to visit you if it weren't for his claustrophobia.†   (source)
  • He made a checking list of the favorite neurasthenic fears: agoraphobia, claustrophobia, pyrophobia, anthropophobia, and the rest, ending with what he asserted to be "the most fool, pretentious, witch-doctor term of the whole bloomin' lot," namely, siderodromophobia, the fear of a railway journey.†   (source)
  • Narrow, intense, almost claustrophobic, the result is a book about extreme states of being, the collapse of men and women who have lost their psychic bearings and now hover, at best tolerated, at the edge of the little community in which they live.†   (source)
  • I experienced a heady sense of freedom at being out from under Dougal's influence and the claustrophobic company of so many men.†   (source)
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