manacle
Example Sentences
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Mostly I just fret, worry-beading minor problems and irritations until they form a manacle of woe.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2019
He even got a leg manacle removed so that he could move freely about the courtroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Within these limitations, the show covers an astonishing range, which should prove to even the most doctrinaire of abstractionists that an attachment to reality is not necessarily a manacle for the mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Harry saw his bald tail whip through the manacle on Ron’s outstretched arm and heard a scurrying through the grass.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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Rattleshirt sat scratching at the manacle on his wrist with a cracked yellow fingernail.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Vocabulary lists containing manacle
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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