How to Use unshackle in a Sentence

unshackle

verb

• Those who unshackle themselves from the burdens of driving will have a lot more of it.
  — Doug Gordon, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• In 2016, the zoo agreed to provide Kaavan with more water and to unshackle him, but little else changed.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
• One of the best things to happen from the outbreak was the freedom to unshackle from the bonds of being in an office building over 80 hours a day, five days a week.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• David, trying to unshackle his fellow android from servitude, urges him to make music and teaches him how to play a recorder.
  — Jake Coyle, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2017
• Games like this showed how chess heretics were unshackling themselves from dogma—exposing their kings and pushing their h-pawns with abandon!
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 26 Apr. 2023
• Despite their violent and destructive pasts, these men have had the courage to unshackle themselves from their inner prison.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 May 2017
• That, of course, is exactly the point of Westworld: to be a place where people can unshackle themselves from reality and its pesky social mores.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• Reams of rules govern how the best French cheeses are made, but hotter, drier summers may unshackle struggling producers.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• By contrast, the Tories’ old supporters in the south believe that leaving the EU will unshackle Britain and usher in an era of freewheeling globalism.
  — The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
• The government says the new laws will unshackle farmers and private investment, bringing growth.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
• That willingness to be different, and to unshackle himself from the worry of others in the coaching community, makes for good copy.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
• After hours in labor, her doctor decided to break her water, and demanded the guard finally unshackle her leg from the rail of the hospital bed.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• Many are also looking ahead as the Asian nation looks to unshackle its 14 trillion yuan mutual funds industry.
  — Fortune, 2 Dec. 2019
• Promoted as a society unshackled from earthly laws, this town is in fact as unfree as possible.
  — Matthew R. Francis, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
• At the judge’s direction, a federal marshal unshackled him.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Collectively, the hope is that these new projects completely change the perception of Taranto, for visitors and residents alike, and unshackle the city's destiny from that of Ilva.
  — Jonathan Hawkins, CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
• The election gives Germans a chance to unshackle themselves from a grand coalition of the center-right and center-left that has eschewed serious economic-policy debate for four years.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• Milena Urbanska is unhappy entirely in her own way, and her voice has unshackled Goldsworthy from the classics.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The rapid availability of wireless internet meant more people could unshackle themselves from their rigid office lives and daily commutes.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2020
• The president, who has jokingly called himself Captain Chainsaw, won election in late 2018 in part by promising to unshackle Brazil’s economic potential, even in the Amazon.
  — Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• This tradeoff has helped further unshackle a generation of women from lives filled with little more than compulsory cooking and cleaning.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
• The moment embodied one of Trump’s main political promises: to promote pro-business policies that unshackle industry and the economy.
  — Coral Davenport and Ana Swanson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
• The moment embodied one of Mr. Trump’s main political promises — to promote pro-business policies that unshackle industry and the economy.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2018
• Financial watchdogs warned against Trump's efforts to unshackle America's banks.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Feb. 2020
• Far more disturbing are the mysterious online bullies intent on ruining the lives of participants who dare to unshackle themselves from Jane’s vast tickling empire.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
• Regardless of how much new gas ultimately comes online, very little of it will help Europe now, when countries on the continent are desperate to unshackle themselves from Russian energy.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• If his goal is to unshackle the Church from her bimillennial moorings, that is another project altogether, one that might not be aided by waiting for a consensus of theological opinion.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 10 June 2019
• The Saudi government sent commercial airliners to Guantánamo to pick them up, which permitted rehabilitation efforts to begin on the base airstrip as soon as U.S. guards unshackled the prisoners.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Investigators were checking security video to determine how his hands were unshackled, Woo said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 11 July 2023
• Transitioning to a fully remote workforce can be a game-changer, allowing employees to work from anywhere, unshackling businesses from the shackles of physical office upkeep.
  — Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024