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

Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

In thrall to her mission, June rents a dusty, disheveled storage room in town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

A thrall offered them a platter, and she stabbed a salted fish and ate it off the end of her dirk.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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

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

One of their father's thralls came near, bearing a flagon of wine.

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

So thralled, what heart from love shall hope to flee?

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

He was so thralled with the sight that he did not notice what was nearer.

From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington

All its birds in middle air hung a-dream, their music thralled.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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

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 Farnol, Jeffery

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

From Russian Lyrics by Bianchi, Martha Dickinson

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

From Back Home by Wood, Eugene

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 Grey, Zane