chained

Example Sentences

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She volunteers with a group that visits Skid Row, provides supplies to the people there, and tries to rescue animals who live chained up in abysmal conditions.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Outside the capital's national police facility known as Zone 7, family members had chained themselves to prison gates, while some had spent weeks sleeping in tents.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

"You get the impression that Sly Dunbar is chained to a studio seat somewhere in Jamaica, but in fact what happens is that his drum tracks are so interesting, they get used again and again."

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

By contrast, the German Reich was unfortunate in its ally Austria-Hungary during World War I; one observer likened it to “being chained to a rotting corpse.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The one with the garbage can chained up behind it, mostly out of sight.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart