trammel

Example Sentences

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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

I seek not to trammel her will by any authority of mine.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton