- present tense form of manacle (3rd person singular).
manacles
Example Sentences
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“He said he’d go to his grave with the manacles of Iraq,” said retired Col.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
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
Here fresh oysters could be bought, here iron chains and manacles, here cyvasse pieces carved of ivory and jade.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
