thrall

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

After decades spent in thrall to Wall Street hedge funders and luxury-housing speculators, what other dreams can a city rich in underdog momentum make real?

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

A football nation is in thrall regardless of their colours.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

The author was in awe of his father, at once afraid of him and in thrall to his boundless charisma and movie-star looks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

I was heady with the responsibility of it, fully in her thrall.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

People have too easily forgotten the eras when deadly, disfiguring diseases held communities in thralls of fear and grief.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2019

Male thralls likely were involved in cutting trees, building ships, and rowing those vessels for their Viking masters.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2015

This "Despicable Me" prequel finds the yellow pill-shaped wannabe-supervillain thralls in search of a master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

While two thralls lit his braziers, Theon stripped off his travel-stained clothing and dressed to meet his father.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

His own chambers in the Guest Keep had never seemed so chilly, though the thralls had left a brazier burning.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Rachel.—The wonderful accuracy of the death-scene in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" has been the object of universal praise in London, not merely from the thrilled and thralled public, but from men of art and science.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various

Still the sense of unreality held me thralled and my brain refused me service.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

But these things were that life of the great North-west whose unspeakable lure thralled men's souls to the death, and he was content.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe

He sat horribly thralled, so long as he was allowed; he crept afterwards to bed and lay there shuddering.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

This broke the charm which thralled him and sent through his nerves the bracing shock that only a soldier can feel when a hint of coming battle reaches him.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an en thralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet more than tropic's soft abundance thralling, My stormy North-land wilderness is calling!

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi

Slowly she drew near, thralling me as it were with the wonder of her look that I had neither power nor will to move or speak.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol

Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.

From Back Home by Eugene Wood

In the Firelight My dear wife sits beside the fire   With folded hands and dreaming eyes, Watching the restless flames aspire,   And wrapped in thralling memories.

From Poems by John Hay