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

Experience will suggest the best course, and it would be inexpedient to trammel the subject with provisions that might, in the end, prevent the adoption of reforms suggested by actual trial.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp