- present tense form of manacle (3rd person singular).
manacles
Example Sentences
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Initially modeled in plaster and later cast in bronze, “The Freedman” portrays a formerly enslaved man clad in a loincloth, his left arm in manacles, his right breaking free from the chains of bondage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
“He said he’d go to his grave with the manacles of Iraq,” said retired Col.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Winters, we can look across the vast eastward miles, and regard with pity the icebound, housebound millions in the manacles of winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
How could three citizens looking at a house on a quiet Sunday afternoon wind up surrounded by guns and slapped into manacles?
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
The headlong pace had left him puffing, and his wrists were chafed raw from the manacles.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
