enchain
Example Sentences
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Yet it’s an alarming way to express one’s intent for a woman who is already effectively enchained.
From Los Angeles Times
In one of Unferth’s omniscient, sweeping surveys of the industry’s technologically souped-up mechanics, its dystopia of automation, she pinpoints the irony of nature enchained:
From Los Angeles Times
Eight days later, a poorly shot hostage video aired by the Colombian channel RCN showed three distraught, enchained men pleading for their lives.
From The Guardian
At every approach of horseman, cart, or carriage, I turned fearfully, certain I should see some minister of injustice come to enchain us.
From Literature
When the lion Leo feels enchained, the universe intervenes.
From Salon
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