How to use shackle in a sentence

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• They worked to unchain the prisoners from their shackles.From the entry unchain
• Months later, the pastor is in shackles, accused of “organizing others to cross the national border illegally.”2025 November 26, Fang Yongrui (pseudonym), “Tourism as Treason: Pastor Sun Chenghao Sentenced to Four and a Half Years for a Trip”, in…. From the entry honeymooner
• Once the planes arrived in El Salvador, the male detainees⁷ were stripped and shackled.2025 April 6, “KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA, et al. v. KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security, et al.”, in…. From the entry CECOT
• Without the shackles of religion, you're free to do whatever you want.2016 May 9, Greg Cohen, “Daesong Heavy Industries” (7:38 from the start), in American Dad!, season 13, episode 15, spoken by Roger (Seth…. From the entry grok
• Then one day they'll wake up in shackles in her playroom.2011, Sheri S. Tepper, Six Moon Dance. From the entry playroom
• He held out his leg so that I could examine the shackle about his ankle.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry berylline
• The shackles have been removed and it shows.2025 February 16, Elton Welsby (@WelsbyElton), “Elton Welsby on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2025. From the entry -ball
• The shackles of CSR have now been tightened by the concept of ESG (Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance).2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post. From the entry CSR
• But that one statement alone raised his shackles.2016 October 1, Rowena Candlish, Worth the Wait (A Novella), Rowena Candlish, →ISBN. From the entry raise someone's shackles
• I'll be going along, doing my starving-writer thing, free from the shackles of 'The Tube'; and, suddenly, my inspiration will die.2013, Aaron Garrison, Synchronicity: One Man's Experience, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry yoink
• Anything that even smelled of tradition or orthodoxy aroused absolute skepticism in him; actually, it raised his shackles instantly.2011 August 1, Latika Mangrulkar, Life Happens, and Death Too: Stories and Poems, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry raise someone's shackles
• Learn working with shackles and how to use them.2010, Capt. Wayne Raybourn, Stormy Seas, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry antiseize
• Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key.2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference, →ISBN. From the entry jail lock
• But how can they react helpfully to orders that sound like, "Shift the shackle on the frammis to the glotz"?1963 May, Mademoiselle, page 225, column 2. From the entry frammis
• “What we need to break the shackles and free these slaves of fashion is a leader,” remarked Mrs.1913 July 9, The Laurel Outlook, volume 105, number 1, published 10 July 2013, section 2, page 5. From the entry trouserette
• Butt rigging—a series of heavy steel links, swivels, and shackles—commected the main line to the haulback line and carried up to six chokers.2022 February 14, John Gill, The Wannabe Doctor: A Man's Quest Amid Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis, Page Publishing, Incorporated, page 17. From the entry haulback
• Today’s statement recognizes that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy,” Pompeo wrote.2021 January 9, Kylie Atwood, quoting Mike Pompeo, “US lifts self-imposed restrictions with Taiwan”, in CNN, archived from the original on…. From the entry recognize
• Hey, everyone fantasizes about what kind of swinging stud or studette they could be if they were only free from the shackles of domesticity.2003 February 23, Bob Goldman, “Welcome To Splitsville”, in Florida Today. From the entry swinging
• The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221. From the entry boot
• A copiously tattooed young man in a blue jumpsuit sits mansplayed across from her, shackled to the rail on his side of the hallway, staring at Penny.2024, Christina Lynch, Pony Confidential, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry tattooed
• Pakistan took a quite different route, pursuing a Western-oriented, free-market approach at a time when India was shackled by Nehruvian autarky, strict state controls and Soviet-style five-year plans.2023, Zareer Masani, “From Bengal to Bollywood”, in Literary Review, number 520. From the entry Nehruvian
• The urgency is for society to free itself from the shackles of these wordmasters, especially those in politics and the ever-expanding reaches of law and lawyers.2004, Marshall Fishwick, Probing Popular Culture On and Off the Internet, The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry wordmaster

Meaning of shackle

1. noun A restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.
2. noun A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a bolt or pin across the ends, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism, used for attaching things together while allowing for some degree of movement; a clevis.
3. noun Part of a padlock that consists of a loop of metal (round or square in cross section) that encompasses what is being secured by the lock.

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Questions about shackle in a sentence

How do you use shackle in a sentence?

Shackle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The prisoner lay in shackles in his gloomy cell.”

What is a short sentence with shackle?

“This law would effectively shackle its opposition.”

What does shackle mean?

Shackle means a restraint fitted over a human or animal appendage, such as an ankle, finger, or wrist, normally used in a pair joined by a chain.