unshackling

Example Sentences

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NF has always rapped as if full of anxiety, and on a core level, that hasn’t changed on “Motto,” a clever narrative about unshackling oneself from the stressors of pop music success.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Her new book, “You Got Anything Stronger?,” continues the project of unshackling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

Coming from a country where too many people were reconciled to their fate from too early an age, the animating force of the American Dream was not just seductive but unshackling.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2017

Unstrapping it from my wrist kind of felt like unshackling a handcuff. 

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2015

We hove in upon our chain, and after stoppering and unshackling it again and again, and hoisting and hauling down sail, we at length tripped our anchor and stood out to sea.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry