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

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

The prince's fingers locked on Jemmy's arm like a manacle.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

As the werewolf wrenched itself free of the manacle binding it, the dog seized it about the neck and pulled it backward, away from Ron and Pettigrew.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling