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How to use shackled in a sentence

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The patient may be handcuffed or shackled with a set of manacles that are cuffed with a chain linking the ankles.
When not in a cell, prisoners are cuffed, shackled and escorted by two or three guards.
He was standing, shackled to the top of a door frame with a gag in his mouth at the time he died.
When the door closed, it revealed a cell with the prisoners inside shackled to heavy metal balls resting on the wooden floor.
He awoke bound and shackled in a prison cell with three brute men with whips standing around him.
At age 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat.
He produced a statement from the prison officer to whom Mullen had been shackled who thought that the precaution was unnecessary.
The next day, the ship reached the shore of England and all the prisoners were handcuffed, shackled and forced into boats destined for the shore.
Olivier was shackled with 25 pounds of chains and forced to sleep on a hard concrete prison floor for over eight years.
Suspected gangsters have been shackled by new laws designed to curb hoodlum behaviour.
It's not like she lies shackled to her straw pallet next to the kitchen hearth, deprived of both comfort and privacy.
Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours.
More naked men are shackled together by their hands and feet in a sickening parody of an orgy.
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
From the moment they are captured, prisoners are hooded, shackled and accorded no rights whatsoever.
Fourth, the working class and labour movement, repressed, shackled, lacking independence, was no alternative.
He adds that he is handcuffed, shackled, and chained at the waist, which has rubbed his wrists and ankles raw.
Others are shackled in stress positions for hours, held in isolation for months, and threatened with attack dogs.
I was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for three months.
Every time he left his cell, including for medical appointments, Thomas had to wear a body belt and was shackled with handcuffs and leg irons.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Some say that Yao is shackled and hidden away, and that Shun has died in the fields.
It is not shackled with a Bill of Rights, and every part of it, is at any time, alterable by an ordinary Legislature.
The Bashkir crossed the threshold with difficulty, for his feet were shackled.
He shackled the beast like a small Savoyard bear, and led him home with a leash.
Now the frightened guard gave up his pistol and the keys to the cell in which Segura was shackled and handcuffed.
Nearly all wore iron fetters on their legs, and some were shackled to the pillars.
What extravagancy is not man capable of entertaining, when once his shackled reason is led in triumph by fancy and prejudice!
She saw the Padre shackled before he could rise from his blankets.
This brought the pony's nose down close to his shackled feet.
Nae doubt it's a hard thing to skulk and starve in the Heather, but it's harder yet to lie shackled in a red-coat prison.
Cattermole, I believe, is earthed and shackled in the same manner.
Behind them, most touching of all, sat a thirty-third shackled in chains.
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