manacle

Example Sentences

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“He said he’d go to his grave with the manacles of Iraq,” said retired Col.

From Seattle Times

Every day, the prop master came in with a real manacle and shackled the actor with a real lock.

From New York Times

Art, perhaps better than anything else, can do that: liberate us, if fleetingly, imperfectly from the manacles that bind us.

From New York Times

Only after a moment do you see the iron manacles between the waves — a Romantic liberty Turner took.

From New York Times

Winters, we can look across the vast eastward miles, and regard with pity the icebound, housebound millions in the manacles of winter.

From Los Angeles Times