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How to use manacles in a sentence

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Then I was looping my arms around his neck, trying to use the bar between the manacles as a garrotte.
She was chained to the wall, her wrists and ankles shackled by iron manacles.
The metal manacles binding his wrists together over his head felt as if they'd been refrigerated before being locked in place.
He was suspended in mid-air, chained at the wrists by a pair of steel manacles.
I swung and clubbed him on the side of the jaw with the manacles, sending him tumbling.
The patient may be handcuffed or shackled with a set of manacles that are cuffed with a chain linking the ankles.
The manacles made an audible clink as they swung back against the wall, and the Knight whirled around.
Thirty two years later, the life of the Bahamian is still sadly crippled by the manacles of marginalisation and the chains of economic slavery.
Giles tugged desperately at the manacles, his fingers scrabbling upward against the chain dangling them from the ceiling.
Several others found his or her way into the busy shop in order to purchase their Frappacino manacles in order to give them a daily kick-start.
The so-called exercise yards consist of 25 x 18 foot cages, with prisoners only allowed to exercise alone, wearing manacles.
British psychiatrists viewed manacles and leg irons as barbaric symbols of the asylum's dubious past.
The man in black attached manacles to the prisoner's hands, and then pulled him to his feet.
Massive manacles made of dull metal bound its wrists and ankles to the wall.
In one hand he held the large ring of keys for the dungeons, and in the other a set of manacles and some chains.
On my wrists the manacles were joined by a solid iron bar just long enough that I couldn't touch my fingertips together.
He hardly noticed the manacles because there across from him, only separated by a bit of glass, was his father's familiar face.
Discipline was maintained by a free application of whips, fetters, stocks, manacles, chains and the kongo, an iron collar with a long beam.
He'd worry about the manacles when they got closer to the fortress.
As he was being lead away in manacles, friends, colleagues, and family vowed to raise money to keep him in.
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And then came Jasper to announce that Ali waited with the brazier and the heated manacles.
Then he found the key of the leg irons, and soon all were free, and the manacles tossed down the hatch to be gathered up later.
Stoliker produced a key and unlocked the manacles, slipping them into his pocket.
Like a tigress she turned upon him, striking the beast a heavy blow with the manacles upon her wrist.
Now the president wants to be freed of these reputed manacles of miserliness.
He is a moveable prison, and his hands two manacles hard to be filed off.
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