trammels
Example Sentences
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Mankind advances by tossing aside the trammels of yesteryear, be they religious or monetary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
The Supreme Court has not confronted questions about whether the law’s wording or application trammels First Amendment rights.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2021
But there remain some bureaucratic trammels that the owners, to their dismay, must face the old-fashioned way.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2015
Experiences at sea had freed old Captain Archer of local New England trammels, just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slowly she faded and sank to rest--peacefully, serenely, with no last buffeting against the trammels of this life--as an infant sinks into refreshing slumber.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
