How to Use shackle in a Sentence

shackle

1 of 2 noun

• The shackles came off by the time the baby came through.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2020
• But Roe and Casey shackle States to a view of the facts that is decades out of date.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 22 July 2021
• Use the key to reverse the lock the shackle to disarm the alarm for travel.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
• By the time the baby pushed through, the shackles had been taken off.
  — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
• How they were kept in small rooms with shackles on them.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
• He was threatened with rape, hung from the ceiling in shackles and kicked in the face.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen and Nazih Osseiran, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• Zeitlin’s Wendy, on the other hand, is freed from those shackles.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2020
• The front leaf spring rear-lower shackle bolts may be loose.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2021
• No longer an Edge case Edge will break free of its Windows 10 shackles as part of the move.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 6 Dec. 2018
• The point, that a record deal can feel like shackles, is a familiar one.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2018
• In a skit where a kid is shackled in a dungeon, he's warned not to mess with his shackles.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 10 Dec. 2018
• Each depicts a Black man, one in shorts, the other in a loincloth and shackles.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Big Trade Deal is possible once U.K. gets rid of the shackles.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
• That the shackles of the prison system can't hold this Injustice League down.
  — refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
• When the crew tried to raise it, the shackle connecting it to the cable failed, Enbridge spokesman Michael Barnes said.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
• Dominique was one of about 60 men in leg shackles and handcuffs bound to waist chains.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
• Stanton tried to run, but the leg shackles caused him to trip and fall, police reports say.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 4 July 2019
• On the other hand, forming up shackles and fittings out of a hot piece of steel is no big deal for the anvil-equipped.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• The researchers found no shackles, locks or iron grills inside the room (or blocking the doors and windows).
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• The shackle is made of a 7mm reinforced stainless-steel.
  — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 11 Nov. 2019
• Abe wants to amend the clause denying Japan a full-fledged military and cast off some of the postwar shackles.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• He’d seen and touched shackles and chains that had been passed down through families.
  — Linda Matchan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
• Handcuffs and shackles proved no match for one 19-year-old Utah man, police say.
  — Josh Magness, kansascity, 31 May 2018
• At her feet lay a broken shackle and chains to symbolize the end of slavery.
  — Reece Jones, CNN, 27 Oct. 2021
• Bonnet—who is last seen reaching for the keys that will unlock his shackles.
  — Outlander Fan, Marie Claire, 21 Jan. 2019
• And the father-rapist — bald and bearded, in a yellow jumpsuit and shackles — stands to ask for mercy.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
• An obese woman, still in shackles, slumps over in her seat before rolling onto the bus’ dirty floor.
  — Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• So the cop put a shackle on his left arm and drove the teen to a police station, according to The Daily Herald.
  — Josh Magness, kansascity, 31 May 2018
• The author and the publisher were well aware that their unshackled judgment could put them in shackles.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Prison staffers had escorted him to the children’s hospital without shackles to treat a hand injury ahead of the escape, ABC News reports.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024

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shackle

2 of 2 verb

• The guard shackled the prisoner.
• The bedside lamps were shackled to the walls—a naughty touch.
  — Audrey Phoon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
• Soon, the 43-year-old was shackled and put on a bus to Bellevue.
  — Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• The parents used chains and padlocks to shackle some of the children to beds.
  — Stella Chan and Ray Sanchez, CNN, 13 July 2022
• Hundreds of slaves were killed, and chained and shackled.
  — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
• Clooney is shackled in the back of a prison van, with Lopez sitting up front.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Davis said she was shackled to a bench for more than three hours.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 25 Feb. 2020
• No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• In the van, Gray was handcuffed, shackled and not secured by a seat belt.
  — Ashley Parker and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
• His wrists were cuffed in front of him, his ankles shackled, his head down.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Over the course of four days, she was held captive, shackled, raped, and tortured.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2019
• In a skit where a kid is shackled in a dungeon, he's warned not to mess with his shackles.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 10 Dec. 2018
• Over the course of 53 days, Stauffer and her daughter were shackled and locked in a closet.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• The officers were then shackled to the floor of a cell, and the prisoners escaped.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
• The release states that the woman told police that she had been handcuffed, shackled and chained to a bed in the house.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
• Because the white prisoners were a threat to run, the guards would shackle them to each other.
  — Winfred Rembert, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Cruz entered the courtroom at 8:45 a.m., dressed in a tan jumpsuit with his arms and legs shackled.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Sometimes a player can be shackled just by the rules that come with [playing] the defense.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2018
• No longer shackled, but still in limbo, and still without her son.
  — NBC News, 25 June 2018
• They were connected to the trellis by their wrists, which were shackled.
  — Claire Fahy, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• When the young man was able to use his teeth to escape the ropes, his mother began using a small chain to shackle him.
  — Paloma Esquivel, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• And in the 1980s, advocates sued to stop the state from shackling and hogtying children there.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• And they will not be shackled to business models that see the purpose of medicine as making drugs.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• Amid a storm of penalties and turnovers, and shackled by an undermanned offensive line, the Browns got popped in the mouth by the Titans.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Her arms and legs were shackled and she was dressed in a blue one-piece uniform worn by inmates who are a suicide threat.
  — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
• Houdini said that no prison could hold him and that no shackles can shackle him.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• Then, there’s Tarik Cohen, who seems to be shackled as a running back and a receiver.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• When defendants were shackled, groups of up to 12 could be processed at a time in each courtroom.
  — Richard Marosi, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
• He was dressed in orange coveralls and had his arms shackled at this waist with chains and padlocks.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 21 June 2018
• Now, cuffed and shackled, Keldy was a criminal defendant, charged with a misdemeanor.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024