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How to use thrall in a sentence

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His supporters say it is misguided to describe him as an archconservative in thrall to big business.
Although unable to hold land a thrall could have possessions, money and time to do work for himself.
Apparently in thrall to the resignation deadline set by David Trimble, the British government moved towards reintroducing direct rule.
Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision.
And funnily enough, the females who go in for this low-grade misandry are usually the ones who are most in thrall to men.
Perhaps the liberatory moment comes because you're not in thrall to the art object as such, but rather to the force of creativity tout court.
These are serious, thoughtful people who are not in thrall to the restrictions of old ideologies.
We live in a world dominated by the private sector and governments in thrall to it.
It seemed that I was still in thrall to an ophidiophobia that dated back to my arboreal primate ancestors.
Another is to suppose that those who disagree with us are in thrall to some evil power.
We want food freed from the grip of science rather than further in thrall to it.
The unco guid, who held Scotland in thrall to the ducking-stool in times past, have reinvented themselves.
Having said that, he is a thunderously awesome singer and had the engineers at Battery in absolute thrall.
It might have been the gig of this year or any other, but not everyone was in thrall to the bands.
The thrall muttered an oath under her breath and summoned forth a blast of flame.
Andrew Lloyd Webber was the Svengali who held the musical theatre stage in thrall.
The show evinced an artist who remained deeply in thrall to modernist principles.
Sara was not sanguine about the prospects, for all of Midgarde had been held too long in thrall.
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
They do not want to fall prey to a Europe in thrall to judges and procedures.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I was but thirteen and of a spirit that had been cowed by her, and was held under her thrall.
Natheless, a stick of good magic, thrall, for 'twas of this wood that the coffin of Mahound was built.
I would not be so caitiff and so thrall as to leave you, when some small deed might still be done.
Under the thrall of the ghost dance, devotees dropped to earth insensible and had visions of the spirit-world.
And yet saith this Pamphilus, moreover, that they that are bond and thrall of linage should be made worthy and noble by riches.
She was in the thrall of fear, but, had she been questioned, would not have allowed that she was afraid.
But Audrey herself was too completely the thrall of the illusion to feel compunction.
The joy of it all held her in its thrall, and, for the moment at least, there was nothing else in the world.
He gave the law, that every shire in the kingdom should annually manumit one thrall.
The lassitude which had held the house party in thrall was dispelled.
And yet, have I a right to execrate the thrall of the beaker?
What man would be so caitiff and thrall as to fail you at your need?
The thrall who had spoken whetted his scythe with it and began to mow.
What's striking in Easy Money is the sense that the author is slightly in thrall to the depraved drug pushers, mobsters and soulless rich kids who people his pages.
He's aware that Western culture resembles a statue of Priapus, a madman so in thrall to his passions that to rescue him requires profound delicacy.
On education, the Conservatives have been very keen to unclamp schools from local authorities, which they regard as hidebound and in thrall to the teaching unions.
Beyond the necessity of propitiating the gods themselves, people in the world of Herodotus live under the murky thrall of various ghosts, shades, and other spiritual entities.
Not his ascendancy alone, however, held me in thrall at present.
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