trammel
Example Sentences
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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
How thoroughly it shows the idleness and folly of attempting to limit, or trammel, or hamper discussion upon the general questions which are presented for our action!
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
Vocabulary lists containing trammel
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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The Time Machine
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