Example Sentences
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Shackled to strangers he cannot understand, he is deprived of the solace of shared language, heritage and community.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2022
Shackled in oversized green jail scrubs, I listened to a prosecutor in a Fairfax County, Va., courtroom tell a judge that in one night I’d single-handedly changed suburban shopping forever.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020
Shackled and in a black and white jail uniform, Johnson was escorted under a heavy law enforcement presence into the crowded courtroom.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2020
Shackled and wearing a crimson jumpsuit, a bearded Holmes sat expressionless at the defense table.
From Reuters • Jan. 8, 2013
Shackled by poverty and lack of education, his indomitable will first broke his own fetters and then those of the slave.
From History of American Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
