Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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"And I said if I have to have another conversation about why we need to make the door handles more accessible I will chain myself to them - rather irreverently I might say."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
"I will chain myself to that statue," said freshman Lauren Shevcheck, 18, of Holland, Pa., who was wearing a Paterno-themed shirt Thursday that read, "We are ... because you were."
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2012
The march of mind and honest investigation will bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism of this period.
From Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) by Mary Baker Eddy
I have duties which will chain me there for life.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
No conqueror will chain us to the car of his triumph; no countless swarm of Huns and Goths will bury the memorials and trophies of civilized life beneath a living tide of barbarism.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey
