trammel

Example Sentences

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In addition to being noisy, the superwide rubber can trammel a bit over patched and imperfect highway surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025

When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Federal courts, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority, should interrogate the true intentions and effects of laws that seem suspiciously eager to trammel constitutional rights.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2016

No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across.

From Time Magazine Archive

O'er everything, however slight, They seized some airy trammel; They snatched my "Hogg" and "Fox" one night, And pocketed my "Campbell."

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn