- present tense form of manacle (3rd person singular).
manacles
Example Sentences
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“He said he’d go to his grave with the manacles of Iraq,” said retired Col.
From Seattle Times β Mar. 22, 2023
Winters, we can look across the vast eastward miles, and regard with pity the icebound, housebound millions in the manacles of winter.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 29, 2022
In so doing, he has posed the question of what mind-forg'd manacles keep three, British-born, young men enslaved to a pair of unscrupulous builders.
From BBC β Dec. 15, 2020
Houdini, he said, “used to practice his underwater escapes in manacles and chains in the pool,” a fact that delights him, because he was an avid magician as a child.
From New York Times β Aug. 4, 2018
The god’s wrists were shackled in icy manacles, with chains that ran straight into the glacier floor.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
