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

Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

She would have married Qarl, and gladly, but she was Lord Baton’s daughter and he was common-born, the grandson of a thrall.

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

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 Night’s Watch takes no part, a voice said, but another replied, Stannis fights for the realm, the ironmen for thralls and plunder.

From "A Dance with Dragons" 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 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

The dust of dim forgetfulness piles fast Upon the chains that thralled us yesterday.

From Songs Ysame by Bacon, Albion Fellows

This broke the charm which thralled him and sent through his nerves the bracing shock that only a soldier can feel when a hint of coming battle reaches him.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

Who had listened thralled to the silver speech which was all his?

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

The Purple Emperor aroma—the Belinda magic—held him thralled.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

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

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

From Back Home by Wood, Eugene

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 Farnol, Jeffery

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 Grey, Zane

In the Firelight My dear wife sits beside the fire   With folded hands and dreaming eyes, Watching the restless flames aspire,   And wrapped in thralling memories.

From Poems by Hay, John