- present participle of unshackle.
unshackling
Example Sentences
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As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, its national soccer team has spent this summer unshackling itself from its own stunted history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Her new book, “You Got Anything Stronger?,” continues the project of unshackling.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
At first Max did pretty well in unshackling himself from the scandalous name.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2020
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
The abolitionists who fought slavery believed that freedom and liberty could be obtained by unshackling the body.
From The American Empire by Scott Nearing
