trammel

In addition to being noisy, the superwide rubber can trammel a bit over patched and imperfect highway surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Federal courts, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority, should interrogate the true intentions and effects of laws that seem suspiciously eager to trammel constitutional rights.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2016

Brennan argued that the plan, like that in Weber, did not "unnecessarily trammel" the interests of whites by creating an absolute bar to their employment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Experience will suggest the best course, and would be inexpedient to trammel the subject with provisions that might in the end prevent the adoption of reforms, suggested by actual trial.

From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson

Here had at long, long last arrived the day when LSU, that jalopy long trammeled in primitive offense and thumping defeats, came to Alabama and stormed up and down the field like some attacking symphony.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2019

The court swiftly rejected this contention, distinguishing Bessinger’s absolute right to his beliefs from his right to exercise those beliefs in a manner that trammeled the legal rights of others.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2017

He also doesn’t want his religious liberty trammeled.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2015

Much of this ground has been well-trod, not to say trammeled.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2014

Youth and social approval allied themselves with me and we trammeled memories of slights and insults.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Even then, before anyone had discerned the global fingerprints of PCBs or climate change, the founders of the Wilderness Society realized that most places had some history of human habitation; most places had experienced some sort of trammeling.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014

The law’s call to protect places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man” has always been poignant, and our enthusiasm for trammeling seems greater every year.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2014

But for me, the darker scenario in 1984 is the reimagining of the English language into Newspeak, and the trammeling of thought it implies.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012

Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

I once heard a lady who had playfully competed with men in a jumping match gravely attribute her defeat to the trammeling of her skirt.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes

Once my children learned to speak, it was curious to observe that their own anxieties trammelled along similar lines, the necessity of attaching a cause – any cause – to their fears.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019

The other patients in the facility seemed beaten down by the irreversibility of their situation, but Fidyka projected an intense, if trammelled, physicality.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016

She particularly likes fictional treatments of "restraint", emotions trammelled or kept down, as when marking, in Middlemarch, "a delicate chapter, low-keyed emotions but minutely traced".

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

Some were talking quietly to each other, some re-tying their laces, others just staring down at their feet as they trammelled the mud.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

He imbibed the spirit of the classical school, but his genius never was trammelled by imitation.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

There is so marked an absence of carving that it seems as if ornamentation would have been weakening and trammelling.

From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose

But in his later works he swung clear of these trammelling archaisms, and produced brilliant and memorable compositions.

From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser

We resign ourselves to our trammelling globe,—as the gold-fish do,—forgetting.

From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth

Yet you must be free, And promise to be free; nor let my gift Sway you one jot in trammelling your heart.

From The Woman Who Dared by Epes Sargent

The magical effect of knots in trammelling and obstructing human activity was believed to be manifested at marriage not less than at birth.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer