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
• Dead Indians to the left and African Americans to the right in bondage.
  — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
• Where once there had been the rhetoric of sin and strife and freedom, of bondage and rebellion, there was a myth of charity for all.
  — Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
• Henry Pool and his wife, who held nobody in bondage, built the church on their land as a house of worship for free and enslaved Blacks.
  — Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
• His father, Abram, was born into bondage in Virginia in the early 1860s.
  — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2022
• Asians, who traveled to Mexico on Spanish galleons, some by choice and some in bondage.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• Even men got in on the glove love, with Jeremy Scott turning bondage latex into kinky gauntlets.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2018
• The promise of life free from bondage was quickly met by a fierce resistance to Black agency.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• Most of these southern Black migrants would have been only five years out of bondage, only five years in freedom.
  — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024