cage

Example Sentences

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But six years after moving in, Fraser says he's trapped in what now feels like a "golden cage".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Liliana’s 15-year-old daughter, Nicole, specializes in the Globe of Death, where she gets in the locked cage with her cousin Judith, also 15; together they maneuver the motorbikes around the globe at opposing-intersecting paths.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

“I let it out. Now I can’t cage it back.”

From Slate • May 4, 2026

The ideological training was a cage built around a mind that had already learned to think.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

She was strapped into the chair right beside Danny, and Orion had to be held in a large cage, though he had a perfectly comfortable bed and bowl of food.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova