Example Sentences

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Open government advocates say it will muzzle the new director.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2018

I know the villain is both rough and grim; But as a tie-dog I will muzzle him.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

We will make him tread out our wheat; but we will muzzle his mouth.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Nast, Thomas