trammel
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In addition to being noisy, the superwide rubber can trammel a bit over patched and imperfect highway surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Federal courts, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority, should interrogate the true intentions and effects of laws that seem suspiciously eager to trammel constitutional rights.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2016
No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across.
From Time Magazine Archive
Which side? which side?" ejaculated Wiggins: "do you wanter trammel up a free and inderpendent citizen of this mighty republic!
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
Here had at long, long last arrived the day when LSU, that jalopy long trammeled in primitive offense and thumping defeats, came to Alabama and stormed up and down the field like some attacking symphony.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2019
This doctrine trammeled minimum wage and maximum hour rules, as well as laws safeguarding workers’ right to unionize.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2018
The court swiftly rejected this contention, distinguishing Bessinger’s absolute right to his beliefs from his right to exercise those beliefs in a manner that trammeled the legal rights of others.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2017
Much of this ground has been well-trod, not to say trammeled.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2014
Youth and social approval allied themselves with me and we trammeled memories of slights and insults.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
The law’s call to protect places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man” has always been poignant, and our enthusiasm for trammeling seems greater every year.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014
Even then, before anyone had discerned the global fingerprints of PCBs or climate change, the founders of the Wilderness Society realized that most places had some history of human habitation; most places had experienced some sort of trammeling.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014
But for me, the darker scenario in 1984 is the reimagining of the English language into Newspeak, and the trammeling of thought it implies.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012
Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Act after act was laid upon everything connected with wool, so that it is only extraordinary that, under such restrictive trammeling, the trade survived at all.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
Once my children learned to speak, it was curious to observe that their own anxieties trammelled along similar lines, the necessity of attaching a cause – any cause – to their fears.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
The other patients in the facility seemed beaten down by the irreversibility of their situation, but Fidyka projected an intense, if trammelled, physicality.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
She particularly likes fictional treatments of "restraint", emotions trammelled or kept down, as when marking, in Middlemarch, "a delicate chapter, low-keyed emotions but minutely traced".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
Some were talking quietly to each other, some re-tying their laces, others just staring down at their feet as they trammelled the mud.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
He was returned to Congress the next year still trammelled with instructions which he truly predicted would soon be removed.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
Long years after he bemoaned his ignorance and want of education when he felt all the drawbacks, the trammelling, the holding-down of it, when he realised how it handicapped him in the race of life.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson
We resign ourselves to our trammelling globe,—as the gold-fish do,—forgetting.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth
When mass feeling, mass-morality, becomes too oppressive, poets are wont to escape from its trammelling conventions at any cost.
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
Yet you must be free, And promise to be free; nor let my gift Sway you one jot in trammelling your heart.
From The Woman Who Dared by Epes Sargent
But in his later works he swung clear of these trammelling archaisms, and produced brilliant and memorable compositions.
From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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