manacle

Mostly I just fret, worry-beading minor problems and irritations until they form a manacle of woe.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2019

He even got a leg manacle removed so that he could move freely about the courtroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within these limitations, the show covers an astonishing range, which should prove to even the most doctrinaire of abstractionists that an attachment to reality is not necessarily a manacle for the mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prince's fingers locked on Jemmy's arm like a manacle.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

As the werewolf wrenched itself free of the manacle binding it, the dog seized it about the neck and pulled it backward, away from Ron and Pettigrew.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Just past midnight on a cold, wet November night in 1904, 13-year-olds William Kiger and Albert Cook, wearing only their skivvies and chained together with ankle manacles, cradled the shackles to stop them clanking.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Art, perhaps better than anything else, can do that: liberate us, if fleetingly, imperfectly from the manacles that bind us.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022

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

One row was devoted to children’s chains and the tiny manacles and links connecting them.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

He stays gruff, of course, but you sense that Ray is as manacled by his authoritarian role as Colin literally is in his hungry, slurping devotion to his master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

There were no triumphal demonstrations, in the tradition of ancient Rome, with manacled Russian captives and their plundered treasures paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2019

“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018

On any given day, hundreds of people course through the narrow corridors — lawyers, manacled prisoners and their families.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2017

Perry frowns, rubs his knees with his manacled hands.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Where is their evidence that manacling our language to past usage is at all helpful or necessary?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2010

Before this conception we might well shudder, for its irons are secretly manacling our own limbs.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

The manacling of Mr. Davis delayed the work of reconstruction for years, and did much to restore the feeling of sectional hatred which fair fighting had overcome.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

Flashing his torch round, Tom noticed that the flooring had been worn and chipped away, no doubt in the process of manacling, and scattered about there was a large quantity of loose particles of brick.

From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Strang, Herbert

President Johnson held Jefferson Davis in long imprisonment, with the aggravation not only of close confinement and even a temporary manacling, but of a public accusation of complicity in the murder of Lincoln.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring