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

The idea of a systematic enchainment of phenomena, in which each is conditioned by every other, and none can be taken in isolation and explained apart from the rest, was foreign to his mind.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

The enchainment or sequence of thoughts in the mind is at first an accidental one.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

The universe was to him a dwelling, to inhabit with his chosen one; and not either a scheme of society or an enchainment of events, that could impart to him either happiness or misery.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft