thrall

Even if France won its second World Cup eight years ago in Russia, French soccer remains in thrall to the generation that lifted the trophy for the first time in 1998.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

A football nation is in thrall regardless of their colours.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

In thrall to her mission, June rents a dusty, disheveled storage room in town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Eril-Fane might have slain the gods and freed his people from thrall, but that thing remained, blocking out the sun, and lording their long torment over them.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

People have too easily forgotten the eras when deadly, disfiguring diseases held communities in thralls of fear and grief.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2019

Male thralls likely were involved in cutting trees, building ships, and rowing those vessels for their Viking masters.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2015

This "Despicable Me" prequel finds the yellow pill-shaped wannabe-supervillain thralls in search of a master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

These were the sons of thralls and salt wives.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

A pair of gaunt children and some thralls stared at him with dull eyes, but there was no sign of his lord father, nor anyone else he recalled from boyhood.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

A girl thralled by the mystery of conception awakes at morn in palpitations, seeing visions.

From Modern Painting by George (George Augustus) Moore

All its birds in middle air hung a-dream, their music thralled.

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

Inert, thralled by the presence of that eerie, dreadful being, I watched them leave the shadow of the doorway and pace slowly on with their dignified Eastern gait.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

But these things were that life of the great North-west whose unspeakable lure thralled men's souls to the death, and he was content.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe

The dust of dim forgetfulness piles fast Upon the chains that thralled us yesterday.

From Songs Ysame by Albion Fellows Bacon

How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an en thralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet more than tropic's soft abundance thralling, My stormy North-land wilderness is calling!

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi

Slowly she drew near, thralling me as it were with the wonder of her look that I had neither power nor will to move or speak.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol

In the Firelight My dear wife sits beside the fire   With folded hands and dreaming eyes, Watching the restless flames aspire,   And wrapped in thralling memories.

From Poems by John Hay

Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.

From Back Home by Eugene Wood