thrall
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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
He was utterly in thrall to rugby and massively supportive of Gregor Townsend and his players.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Thurman benefits the most from spending an entire afternoon in the thrall of her performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
At the field a heavy silence prevailed, overpowering motion like a ruthless, insensate spell holding in thrall the only beings who might break it.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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
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
They dead, I live; I thralled, they are free.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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 Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
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 Spenser, Edmund
Still the sense of unreality held me thralled and my brain refused me service.
From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax
The dust of dim forgetfulness piles fast Upon the chains that thralled us yesterday.
From Songs Ysame by Bacon, Albion Fellows
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 Grey, Zane
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 Hay, John
Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.
From Back Home by Wood, Eugene
Yet more than tropic's soft abundance thralling, My stormy North-land wilderness is calling!
From Russian Lyrics by Bianchi, Martha Dickinson
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