- present tense form of shackle (3rd person singular).
shackles
Example Sentences
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In response to questions from ProPublica, a DHS spokesperson said in a statement that despite the shackles, Garcia Venegas was “NOT detained.”
From Salon • May 24, 2026
Thou art risen to great estate and fortune — release thy shackles.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
Eventually, science slipped the shackles of heresy and astronomers revolutionized our understanding of Earth’s place in the cosmos.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
In film and television, book clubs are portrayed as a way for women to briefly free themselves from the shackles of domestic responsibility, sticky children, feckless husbands.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
He’d been forty-four years old when he was put in shackles and sent to prison for his activism, and seventy-one when he was finally released in 1990.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
