Example Sentences

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She had her wings pinioned by previous owners, meaning she is unable to fly.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Controversial newsmakers—Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt among them—had the term pinioned to them like a scarlet letter, stripping away their accomplishments and leaving only scorned husks of their real selves.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025

It was like peering onto another planet, one that was desolate and depleted and doomed, all of it pinioned by a noxious ozone.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2022

And McMaster, for all his brilliance, is still pinioned between competing visions of foreign policy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2017

There Perimedes and Eurylokhos pinioned the sacred beasts.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer