Santa's terrible habit, poor thing, when cooped up?

Usage examples of claustrophobia.

Angel of Leaky Outhouses up there, and we got the Angel of Overgrazed Pastures and the Angel of Always Being Broke up there--why, we got so many offbeat, grizzled angels floating around over this little town that sometimes I get claustrophobia from all their wing rustling--from them that has any feathers left in their wings, that is.

Credential doctrines disaccorded with a pervasive staleness and spiritual claustrophobia.

Now, with billions of cubic kilometers of open space around him, he was suddenly feeling the unpleasant stirrings of claustrophobia.

Let us go over the progress of the illusion once more: first came the claustrophobia, then the smell, then, through Dr.

It was so difficult to fight my growing claustrophobia I began to wonder about Morgan.

Being hugged by Auntie Sara induced in six year old Caroline a sense of claustrophobia and primitive fright.

I had had to try it, though, because I was feeling desperate, with a touch of claustrophobia tossed in.

In this unhealthy claustrophobia, I notice that even the insects in the terrarium are clustered together, hidden beneath moss, on the underside of stones, unwilling to move out, hibernating for the summer.

Her steps faltered and her heart pounded faster, fighting beneath the burden of claustrophobia that tightened her chest.

Experiencing a sudden, un-characteristic attack of claustrophobia, he hurried to remove the survival suit's headpiece.

That dark sky gave Gordon a feeling of claustrophobia, a sense of all the trillions of miles of shadowy gloom that encompassed him and shut him from the star bright spaces of the galaxy outside.

They traveled in silence, and the tension seemed to be intensified by the claustrophobia of the helmet, the sound of their own breathing, and the rhythmic hissing of the airfield.

Flinging his visible arm starward he babbled on: "We got the Angel of Leaky Outhouses up there, and we got the Angel of Overgrazed Pastures and the Angel of Always Being Broke up there--why, we got so many offbeat, grizzled angels floating around over this little town that sometimes I get claustrophobia from all their wing rustling--from them that has any feathers left in their wings, that is.

Mainlanders are often subjected to a spectrum ranging from xenophobia," Lars began ticking the subjects off on his fingers, "a fear of races in their own territories, to claustrophobia to nip any budding interest in space-faring, to fear of disobedience, fear and disgust of acts that are 'unnatural,' fear of committing an illegal action, rational or not.

Now that they were taking her somewhere, anywhere, the dreaded constrictions of claustrophobia had retreated, for the moment anyway.