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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

A football nation is in thrall regardless of their colours.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

I stood rooted to the spot, paralyzed, in thrall to the action before my eyes.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

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

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

They dead, I live; I thralled, they are free.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

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

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

Inert, thralled by the presence of that eerie, dreadful being, I watched them leave the shadow of the doorway and pace slowly on with their dignified Eastern gait.

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

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