manacle

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

"And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships."

From BBC

“He said he’d go to his grave with the manacles of Iraq,” said retired Col.

From Seattle Times

Every day, the prop master came in with a real manacle and shackled the actor with a real lock.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times