- present tense form of manacle (3rd person singular).
manacles
Example Sentences
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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
In so doing, he has posed the question of what mind-forg'd manacles keep three, British-born, young men enslaved to a pair of unscrupulous builders.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2020
They apologized to Aarfy for intruding and led Yossarian away between them, gripping him under each arm with fingers as hard as steel manacles.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
