manacles

Example Sentences

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Just past midnight on a cold, wet November night in 1904, 13-year-olds William Kiger and Albert Cook, wearing only their skivvies and chained together with ankle manacles, cradled the shackles to stop them clanking.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022

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

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

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

Here fresh oysters could be bought, here iron chains and manacles, here cyvasse pieces carved of ivory and jade.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin