fetter

Example Sentences

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“We seek a new revolution,” he said, “not less important, perhaps, in its consequences than that of 1776—a revolution in letters; a shaking off of the fetters of the mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal

As the pandemic has made clear, the fettering of news in one country — China as a prime example — can affect the whole world.

From Washington Post

Around that same time, he wrote publicly that in a dire crisis, Chinese leaders could “take all necessary measures” to defend sovereignty, casting aside the fetters of lesser laws.

From New York Times

However it said shackles were "very rarely" found with human remains, adding this was the first discovery from Roman Britain of a man wearing lockable ankle fetters.

From BBC

Constrained by a public role that kept him out of politics and in his wife’s shadow, he privately took a less fettered stance as a husband, father and father-in-law.

From Washington Post