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UK
/tʃˈeɪnd/
]
[ US /ˈtʃeɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃeɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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bound with chains
prisoners in chains
enchained demons strained in anger to gnaw on his bones
How To Use chained In A Sentence
- It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength. Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans
- The iron hooks that prisoners were chained to are still visible on the walls.
- In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
- She felt chained to the kitchen sink.
- Zhang had been chained to a cowshed in Hunan, southern China, in 2005 after falling out with village officials over a loan to build his house. Zhang Chuanqiu, Chain Skin Victim, Saved By British Media Charity
- There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
- Two men wake to find themselves chained at opposite ends of a deserted washroom somewhere in the Industrial Zone.
- At dawn alert next day Suwanti chained the dogs away from a round jungle-green enigma then bowled the baby into the hedge to its kind.
- We were sitting together in our cell, chained to the wall.
- The bestiaries proved troublesome too, as all the ones she could find were chained to their shelves. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR