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Even if France won its second World Cup eight years ago in Russia, French soccer remains in thrall to the generation that lifted the trophy for the first time in 1998.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

And when she finally reunites with Y for the movie’s sleek “Contempt”-like endgame, both of them in thrall to private luxury, it’s hard to see how they’ll move forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

She found her friend in the thrall of a queen who lived in a palace of ice and had a heart to match.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

A pair of gaunt children and some thralls stared at him with dull eyes, but there was no sign of his lord father, nor anyone else he recalled from boyhood.

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

The Night’s Watch takes no part, a voice said, but another replied, Stannis fights for the realm, the ironmen for thralls and plunder.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Who had listened thralled to the silver speech which was all his?

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Margaret West Kinney

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

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

His was a high and noble mind, chained and thralled by manifold circumstances and accidents to the dull pursuits of worldly ambitions.

From The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He was the voice of God talking into men's ears; and the music of that low, quiet voice thrilled and thralled their hearts.

From Quiet Talks on Following the Christ by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

Right so your selfe were caught in cunning snare Of a deare foe, and thralled to his love; In whose streight bands ye now captived are So firmely, that ye never may remove.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

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 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

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

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

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

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi