Sample Sentences forshackle (editor-reviewed)
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Despite her talent, societal expectations continued to shackle her ambitions, making it difficult to pursue her dreams.shackle = constrain or limit
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The prisoners were forced to walk in shackles, the heavy metal clanging with each step.shackles = restraints
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Shackles around the ankles were connected by a 2-foot chain, so that he could not run away.standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unshackled means not and reverses the meaning of shackled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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The company felt shackled by outdated regulations that hindered their growth.shackled = constrained or encumbered
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In the same instant, the shackle on my right ankle clicked open and fell off, revealing a band of abraded red skin. (source)shackle = a metal ring that can be chained to something to restrain free movement
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At the Big Top Mall, no one bothers with iron shackles. (source)shackles = physical restraints that prevent free movement
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Hobbled by leg shackles, constricted by handcuffs, Connor's strides are short, his posture hunched. (source)shackles = restraints consisting of a metal ring around each ankle that are connected by a short length of chain
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Half-naked, bruised, and shackled to the wall. (source)shackled = chained (freedom is restrained)
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They say once in a while they take a black boy here and shackle him up to those.† (source)
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I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away. (source)unshackled = with restraints removedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unshackled means not and reverses the meaning of shackled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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They are not shackling themselves to wifehood and maternity first chance.† (source)
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In court, she suddenly realized, and immediately felt as if she'd been released from shackles. (source)shackles = restraints
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I glanced at poor, shackled Mary. (source)shackled = physically restrained -- as when ankles are chained to each other by about 2 feet of chain
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You're trying to shackle me to a stranger!† (source)
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It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.† (source)
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And their going brought him peace and freedom, as if his limbs had been freed from a shackling weight.† (source)
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