manacles

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“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

How could three citizens looking at a house on a quiet Sunday afternoon wind up surrounded by guns and slapped into manacles?

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

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

“We’ll get you fixed up, Phillip,” Jack said softly as he carefully sliced through the prince’s manacles with the witch’s knife.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley