Example Sentences

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“I don’t say we have shackled or handcuffed or constrained our speaker. We have empowered him,” Good said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023

Inflation is running above 60% and is set to rise further, while high energy import costs have shackled the country's ability to increase depleted foreign currency reserves.

From Reuters • Jul. 3, 2022

You have shackled me hand and foot and placed me in this death trap, but your ears shall not be greeted with any moans or cries of complaint.

From Mischievous Maid Faynie by Libbey, Laura Jean

Those authors who dared be a law unto themselves are, by implication at least, praised for flinging down their gauntlets to the dull, moral Philistines who have shackled themselves with their own stupid traditions.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

Notwithstanding this rare freedom from the chains with which her merely fashionable friends would have shackled her mind, Miss Beaufort possessed too much judgment and delicacy to flash her liberty in their eyes.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane