trammels

Example Sentences

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Mankind advances by tossing aside the trammels of yesteryear, be they religious or monetary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The Supreme Court has not confronted questions about whether the law’s wording or application trammels First Amendment rights.

From New York Times • May 22, 2021

But there remain some bureaucratic trammels that the owners, to their dismay, must face the old-fashioned way.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2015

Experiences at sea had freed old Captain Archer of local New England trammels, just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound.

From Time Magazine Archive

The doctor continued— 'James, had you gone, though it had been but for an instant, to see that unhappy patient of Kerr's, your trammels would have been broken.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry