unshackling

Example Sentences

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Her new book, “You Got Anything Stronger?,” continues the project of unshackling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

Turning off the buzzing breaking-news machine I carry in my pocket was like unshackling myself from a monster who had me on speed dial, always ready to break into my day with half-baked bulletins.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

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

The abolitionists who fought slavery believed that freedom and liberty could be obtained by unshackling the body.

From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott