unshackling

Example Sentences

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Brands offers a detailed, almost minute-by-minute account of Brown’s raid, which he rates a “wretched fiasco,” a “quixotic venture” that, far from unshackling the enslaved, tightened their shackles even further.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020

It was a new kind of freedom, the unshackling of his mind.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2019

Coming from a country where too many people were reconciled to their fate from too early an age, the animating force of the American Dream was not just seductive but unshackling.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2017

Exculpating oneself from guilt would in I Saw a Man mean unshackling oneself from others and sinking back into the loneliness of mere sorrow.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2015

Bâtard’s sides were heaving regularly, but Leclère felt that the breath came and went a shade too quickly; also he felt that there was a vigilance or alertness to every hair that belied unshackling sleep. 

From The Faith of Men by London, Jack