thrall
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And if that doesn’t ensure the populace is in thrall to the authoritarian narrative, the firemen of the novel burn books, ensuring ideas can’t get into the hands of the people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
“He is no more than a thrall of the Other, the dark god whose name must not be spoken.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
One of their father's thralls came near, bearing a flagon of wine.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
These were the sons of thralls and salt wives.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He could remember nothing of the joy that had thralled him for two years, that by its ending had desolated him for two more and alienated him from women.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
My eyes were seared, yet thralled I peered through the parka hood nigh blind; But I staggered on to the lights that shone, and never I looked behind.
From Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
He was so thralled with the sight that he did not notice what was nearer.
From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort
All its birds in middle air hung a-dream, their music thralled.
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
They dead, I live; I thralled, they are free.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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
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
In waking and sleeping hours Madeline Hammond could not release herself from the thralling memory of that tragedy.
From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
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
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