thrall

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

After decades spent in thrall to Wall Street hedge funders and luxury-housing speculators, what other dreams can a city rich in underdog momentum make real?

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

A football nation is in thrall regardless of their colours.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

I stood rooted to the spot, paralyzed, in thrall to the action before my eyes.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

The Night’s Watch takes no part, a voice said, but another replied, Stannis fights for the realm, the ironmen for thralls and plunder.

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

The thralls were pouring ale, and there was music, fiddles and skins and drums.

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

This broke the charm which thralled him and sent through his nerves the bracing shock that only a soldier can feel when a hint of coming battle reaches him.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

He dumbly felt his misfortune in being thralled by a nature of greater moral crudity than his own.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

This the sure instinct of his art taught him he might not do, since those tales which held them thralled were not for such as she.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West

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

From Songs Ysame by Bacon, Albion Fellows

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 Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)

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 Bianchi, Martha Dickinson

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 Farnol, Jeffery

In waking and sleeping hours Madeline Hammond could not release herself from the thralling memory of that tragedy.

From Light of the Western Stars by Grey, Zane

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

From Back Home by Wood, Eugene