- present tense form of manacle (3rd person singular).
manacles
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“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
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
The god’s wrists were shackled in icy manacles, with chains that ran straight into the glacier floor.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
