thrall

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The 1960s were in thrall to Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Really, I think Luhrmann is praying that in a thousand years, some alien civilization will discover this footage and build a whole religion around the thrall Elvis’ hip thrusts had over a crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Those not already in thrall to Mr. Winchester may find that however much they want to be pleased with his style in “The Breath of the Gods,” they can’t quite get there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

He wrote the last few words with a smile, for the bull terrier had Mrs. Oakes completely in thrall and worked his advantage to the full.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

People have too easily forgotten the eras when deadly, disfiguring diseases held communities in thralls of fear and grief.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2019

Male thralls likely were involved in cutting trees, building ships, and rowing those vessels for their Viking masters.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2015

This "Despicable Me" prequel finds the yellow pill-shaped wannabe-supervillain thralls in search of a master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

While two thralls lit his braziers, Theon stripped off his travel-stained clothing and dressed to meet his father.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The thralls were pouring ale, and there was music, fiddles and skins and drums.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

He dumbly felt his misfortune in being thralled by a nature of greater moral crudity than his own.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Inert, thralled by the presence of that eerie, dreadful being, I watched them leave the shadow of the doorway and pace slowly on with their dignified Eastern gait.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe

This the sure instinct of his art taught him he might not do, since those tales which held them thralled were not for such as she.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Margaret West Kinney

Still the sense of unreality held me thralled and my brain refused me service.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an en thralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slowly she drew near, thralling me as it were with the wonder of her look that I had neither power nor will to move or speak.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol

In waking and sleeping hours Madeline Hammond could not release herself from the thralling memory of that tragedy.

From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.

From Back Home by Eugene Wood

Yet more than tropic's soft abundance thralling, My stormy North-land wilderness is calling!

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi