in chains

Example Sentences

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Matan Zangauker, 25, is a soldier whose mother has campaigned relentlessly for his release, protesting while tied up in chains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Such activism, I believed then and I believe now, began in 1619, the moment enslaved Africans were deposited in chains on American shores.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

Colonies consist of hundreds of individuals linked in chains that can be up to several meters long.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

Earth may have remained watery for quite some time—at least until tectonic processes began to recycle Earth’s crust into its interior, and magma bubbled up in chains of island volcanoes that eventually fused into continents.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 30, 2024

The point is that we have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara