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

It is unreasonable and unrealistic to ask the tourists to be chained to the nets, or spend every moment away from cricket locked in their rooms.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

They were chained or tied together and marched, often barefoot, first into Georgia and then farther and farther west in the dramatically expanded United States.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

But I could not move, I could only watch like a chained spectator.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya