trammel

In addition to being noisy, the superwide rubber can trammel a bit over patched and imperfect highway surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Federal courts, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority, should interrogate the true intentions and effects of laws that seem suspiciously eager to trammel constitutional rights.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2016

No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was yet a fireplace in the kitchen, down whose wide-throated chimney the stars might shine upon the seething samp-pot swinging on the trammel and the bake-kettle embedded and covered in embers.

From Vermont A Study of Independence by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

Here had at long, long last arrived the day when LSU, that jalopy long trammeled in primitive offense and thumping defeats, came to Alabama and stormed up and down the field like some attacking symphony.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2019

The court swiftly rejected this contention, distinguishing Bessinger’s absolute right to his beliefs from his right to exercise those beliefs in a manner that trammeled the legal rights of others.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2017

He also doesn’t want his religious liberty trammeled.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2015

Much of this ground has been well-trod, not to say trammeled.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2014

Youth and social approval allied themselves with me and we trammeled memories of slights and insults.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Even then, before anyone had discerned the global fingerprints of PCBs or climate change, the founders of the Wilderness Society realized that most places had some history of human habitation; most places had experienced some sort of trammeling.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014

The law’s call to protect places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man” has always been poignant, and our enthusiasm for trammeling seems greater every year.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014

But for me, the darker scenario in 1984 is the reimagining of the English language into Newspeak, and the trammeling of thought it implies.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012

Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

I once heard a lady who had playfully competed with men in a jumping match gravely attribute her defeat to the trammeling of her skirt.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

Once my children learned to speak, it was curious to observe that their own anxieties trammelled along similar lines, the necessity of attaching a cause – any cause – to their fears.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019

The other patients in the facility seemed beaten down by the irreversibility of their situation, but Fidyka projected an intense, if trammelled, physicality.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016

She particularly likes fictional treatments of "restraint", emotions trammelled or kept down, as when marking, in Middlemarch, "a delicate chapter, low-keyed emotions but minutely traced".

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

Some were talking quietly to each other, some re-tying their laces, others just staring down at their feet as they trammelled the mud.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The trammelled imagination of a canting world reads crime into what is no crime at all.”

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

A few journals, however, even in the days before the great changes of the War, placed a jealous guard upon their absolute freedom from trammelling influences and to-day they reap the reward of public confidence.

From Deep Furrows by Moorhouse, Hopkins

Once that Swithin’s emancipation from a trammelling body had been effected by the telescope, and he was well away in space, she felt her influence over him diminishing to nothing. 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas

But the deeds of the man who is really free have no such trammelling effects, for they are not prompted by desire nor directed to an object.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

It seemed to him that now at last life had freed him from all trammelling delusions, leaving him only the best thing in its gift—his boy.

From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith

Rev. Mr. Thatcher wrote in 1690 of teaching a mare to amble by cross-spanning, and again by trammelling.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse