Example Sentences

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The triple is perhaps Yosemite’s most spectacular enchainment, or “link-up” in climber lingo, and only a handful of people in the world — if that many — are capable of doing it in a day.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2012

Now my friends in Jackson — Chris Denny, Jess McMillan and Chris Figenshau, a photographer — were dead set on recreating a Euro-style enchainment on United States soil.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2011

It is impossible to conjecture the strange enchainment of events which restored the lifeless form of my friend to our hands.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

A sister would have meant enchainment to civilization.

From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver

In his spirit of system, his clearness, and the logical enchainment of his ideas, Calvin is eminently French.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund