manacles

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 • Mar. 22, 2023

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 • Mar. 29, 2022

In so doing, he has posed the question of what mind-forg'd manacles keep three, British-born, young men enslaved to a pair of unscrupulous builders.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2020

“Banner might be bound in manacles, but when provoked he would explode out of them,” Johnson said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019

They apologized to Aarfy for intruding and led Yossarian away between them, gripping him under each arm with fingers as hard as steel manacles.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller