Example Sentences

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Someone who calls himself Ghoulardi has caged nearly every teen-age mind in Cleveland.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am just as young as I was then—only I am so much wiser," she thought, "and it is wisdom—it is knowing life that has caged me and made me a prisoner.

From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Then, certain of time for escape, I cried to my prisoners, "You are looking for Vidocq—well, it is he who has caged you; farewell."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 by Various