How to Use bondage in a Sentence

bondage

noun

• There will be the chains of bondage and the pointy hat of the Klan.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 22 July 2019
• The thin black straps that allude to very soft bondage.
  — Alice Cary, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
• We’re freed from the bondage and tyranny of sin that gripped our lives.
  — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Apr. 2021
• The black lives held in bondage by the Jesuits in 1838 did not matter to Mulledy.
  — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
• Rufus Burgess mined gold in the river to buy his way out of bondage.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 16 May 2024
• Few are lucky enough to achieve release from long-term bondage.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
• The Bone and Arrow Make bonding meet bondage with this full-frontal pose.
  — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2017
• Dead Indians to the left and African Americans to the right in bondage.
  — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2019
• Lean out the window, golden hair; my heart is in bondage and my lute is on fire.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2015
• Among those indicted were the people owed the bondage debts of the women brought from Bangkok.
  — Monica Davey, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• Yet the interviews still provide a glimpse at the harshness of life in bondage.
  — Raphael E. Rogers, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2022
• When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage.
  — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• Just add ropes or your favorite bondage equipment and voila!
  — Ashley Cobb, Essence, 28 July 2022
• There are real chains of bondage here, and that’s because of the foundation.
  — The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
• Slave resistance blew up the big lie that slaves were happy in bondage.
  — Adam Rothman, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2016
• Feminists saw something like bondage in the dress straps that held the subject’s arms close to her body.
  — William Grimes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Swarms of nude dancers, male and female, caper up in bizarre sword-and-sorcery bondage gear.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
• This story to me has always summed up the power of white supremacy: Choose a life of bondage or refuse and limp.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• God had a purpose in plaguing Egypt: to persuade the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from bondage.
  — Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• The vision was of her as a military leader with, of course, some leather bondage pieces over it.
  — Gary Grimes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
• But the phrase came to mean more than simply a way of escaping feudal bondage.
  — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• The years of our silence and captivity; years of protest, bondage and the walls behind which we are trapped.
  — Nasrin Sotoudeh, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
• In freedom, as in bondage, Tilghman Davis lived on the periphery of wealth.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• The king-size bed in the master bedroom is fitted with chrome rings on corner posts for bondage nights.
  — Joey Flechas, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Throwing off the shackles of tyranny often ends in new forms of bondage.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• His mother was born into bondage, too, just as the Civil War was about to bring the slave system down.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• Pregnant Slick Woods dancing down the runway in bondage!
  — Zoë Weiner, Teen Vogue, 13 Sep. 2018
• In 1998, the Netflix subscription service was born, and the world was freed from the bondage and discipline of late fees.
  — Stacey Grenrock Woods, Esquire, 1 Dec. 2005
• President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
• Choosing a red leather Mugler bondage dress for a late night TV interview?
  — Booth Moore, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024