How To Use Handcuff In A Sentence

Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
As he was walking past a ship chandler's shop, he was shocked to see handcuffs, leg shackles, and thumbscrews in the window.
The terrified family were handcuffed, had pillows pulled over their heads and were held at gunpoint overnight.
He is alleged to have resisted arrest after failing a breath test and was taken away in handcuffs. The Sun
Actual policemen brought the prisoners down to the police station in handcuffs and did the booking.

The prisoner told lawyers he was tortured using the strappado, in which a prisoner is suspended from a bar with handcuffs.
The three men and two women were arrested, handcuffed and held in police cells. Times, Sunday Times
The policeman snapped the handcuffs around her wrist.
They got out of their car and, without notice, put us under arrest and handcuffed us.
His wrists broke as he tried to catch himself, splintering under the weight of the senseless lunks of people handcuffed to him.
I can only imagine his knapsack is full of dildos and anal beads and ticklers and handcuffs and shit. INDIANA JONES DOMINATRIX PICTURES
Two convicts escape while handcuffed together, and are pursued by police and the press while attempting to track down their former associates.
I could still practically feel the handcuffs on my wrist.
He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a straitjacket.
You could even "cuff-block" (take someone else's handcuff, which is awesome because it pisses them off and gives you trade bait in one fell swoop). Undefined
Why, only yesterday the desperate villain handcuffed the very sheriff in the very courtyard! The Hidden Hand
I suddenly felt cold metal handcuffs slap on my wrists.
She was handcuffed and taken into custody, and then taken for medical treatment.
The two Norwegians threatened to arrest Inge while the out of uniform police officer wielded a pair of handcuffs to add to the threats.
Within seconds, rollerblading officer Stephane Ajuelos has handcuffed a colleague posing as a thief.
But secret video of Milosevic being marched in handcuffs, head bowed, to his solitary cell spoke more eloquently: he no longer has the power to instill fear and exert total control over the nation he misruled for more than a decade.
The Masai, Tepilit, is standing handcuffed between two policemen in the dock as the circuit judge enters.
A 19-year-old who escaped police still wearing the handcuffs used to detain him has been brought to justice.
At the cemetery, they let Tony be handcuffed just to one prison officer.
Handcuffed or in cages, people convicted of no crime are transported to and from these centres in high-security vehicles.
Let's say they found an Illinois matchbook, a pair of sawed-apart handcuffs, some direct proof her son had been to see her. THE BINGO PALACE
He was brutally beaten, struck over the head with a weapon, and handcuffed to a toilet while the gang ‘robbed’ the van.
Moments later, the officer was again slapping a pair of handcuffs on the 23-year-old man, who had apparently just slipped free from bracelets another officer had snapped around his wrists 16 hours earlier.
He was forced face down on the bunk while the handcuffs were removed and replaced by nylon flex cuffs.
Anyone who believes they should put Americans first (as you suggest Rosen does) could easily say that if an immigrant and a nonimmigrant were competing for a job, then a "put non-immigrants first" policy would support "handcuffing the immigrant to a tree" because it would reduce the competition for the job. Rosen and Responsibility, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A red-faced couple were forced to drive to Hadleigh fire station after the handcuffs they had put on got stuck.
No age limit on Gwinnett police Taser policy | ajc. com: Last week's use of a Taser stun gun on a handcuffed 14-year-old trick or treater is within Gwinnett County police policy, which has no age provision, police said. Archive 2007-11-04
Very shortly, the officer who had handcuffed Jim removed the bracelets and offered an apology.
He then tried to bite other cops before being handcuffed and put in a van. The Sun
The article reported that the girl was detained in handcuffs and shackles.
Mr Brown said: ‘I have got big wheals on my wrists where the handcuffs were, and I fell and bashed up my legs, which are very painful.’
He felt the gentle give of the handcuffs beneath his expert hands and reigned in his emotions.
He wondered, too, whether the man would be willing to unlock the handcuff that chafed away at his right wrist.
The staggering on too-high heels, the silly hats, the little black dresses covered in tinsel and the semi-drunken jokes about handcuffs. It’s That Time Of Year Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Frank regains consciousness, and is taken aback to find that he is handcuffed to his hospital bed.
Hudson, who was wearing a black T-shirt and black leather jacket, climbed down the ladder at 10.30 am and was handcuffed by police before being bundled into a police van.
Its "golden handcuffs" approach of finding wives for captured terrorists and enmeshing them in a web of personal, financial, religious and professional obligations once released is regarded as pioneering. Militants teach jihad in Indonesian prisons
We use handcuffs and the winner is the person who locks cuffs on the other. The Sun
The accused entered the courtroom handcuffed to two police officers.
The onlooker said:'The officer then put him in handcuffs. The Sun
I have learned everything, everything!" said Cleek, and pouncing upon his portmanteau whisked out a couple of pairs of handcuffs. Cleek, the Master Detective
Black leaders continued to condemn the actions of a Cambridge police sergeant who handcuffed the African-American professor outside his own home Thursday.
I listened to the dialing tone and looked around to see other agents pulling the robbers out in electrified handcuffs. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Polaris Spark’s Review Forum
She was led away by police in handcuffs. The Sun
When he engaged in a hunger strike, the authorities committed him to a hospital where he was force fed, involuntarily sedated, handcuffed and sometimes strapped to his bed for long periods.
I was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for three months.
Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed.
'If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality. Home | Mail Online
I await the knock upon the door and a brace of burly policemen with handcuffs.
Handcuffed, he performed a backflip and a handstand. The Sun
The set is sold in two bottles handcuffed together. The Sun
A shank was held to a female guard's throat as she was handcuffed to a chair and tied up with duct tape.
The hosts had placed a pair of handcuffs on our bed. Times, Sunday Times
The policeman slipped a pair of handcuffs on his wrists.
He was taken by ambulance to hospital where police handcuffed him to his bed. Times, Sunday Times
The five are charged with propositioning men and then pretending to be police officers, handcuffing the men, and then robbing them.
Police handcuffed him and hauled him off to jail.
One boy had his keffiyeh confiscated and I saw at least two boys arrested and handcuffed.
They pushed her son against a wall and she was arrested and handcuffed. Times, Sunday Times
pickpockets," or put pickpockets into brackets -- handcuff 'em, in fact -- and then O'NOODLE will get at the sense of the paragraph. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893
And I just saw him looking very distressed before they forced him into his seat, and put a blindfold on him and covered his handcuffs with a blanket.
Black leaders continued to condemn the actions of a Cambridge police sergeant who handcuffed the African-American professor outside his own home Thursday.
According to MPD spokesman Ron Reier, officers Maced and handcuffed Doby in an attempt to subdue him.
Then he was shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and a belly chain and taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
She was asked to the office, where two police officers handcuffed her and took her away.
Schumer made a show of clasping his hands and accused the officials of being ideologically 'handcuffed' to the far right — which the officials found highly insulting. You Could Bank on It
Soul was arrested on a charge of assault and spousal abuse and led away in handcuffs.
August Bordine stood handcuffed and a prisoner, his face the picture of utter astoundment. Five Thousand Dollars Reward
He was paraded before the media in handcuffs yesterday. The Sun
[O] nce defendant was physically taken into custody and handcuffed, the potential for coercion was as great as that which inheres in custodial interrogation by a police officer, and ... administration of the Miranda warnings was required to dispel that potential coercion in order for defendant's statement to be admissible in a criminal trial. Fourth Department
The bailiff was dressed in dark navy blue, his only marks of authority a silver badge pinned above his left breast and a pair of handcuffs, both of which looked like they could have been purchased at a five-and-dime.
Police and court officials wrestled the Black Watch sergeant to the ground and handcuffed him. The Sun
At the station he was handcuffed to a Group 4 escort and taken to a cell in the adjoining court.
Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed.
Before they move you, they take you anywhere, you had to be shackled, and you had to have a chain on your waist, you had to be handcuffed.
In fact, Grainge would love to get his hands on Williams, who recently signed a golden-handcuffs deal with EMI for a reported £40m.
A professor of Music, Johnson said he traveled to Tijuana about a week after the protest; upon returning to the US, Johnson says he was handcuffed and arrested by customs agents after a listing associated with his name pegged him as armed and dangerous. Infowars
He is handcuffed, strip-searched and brutalised by officials who throw him into jail.
He was then handcuffed and asked for the keys to the safe.
When the police arrived, they handcuffed him, probably cautioned him and took him to 31 Division for questioning.
That sabotages the effectiveness of the demonstrators who are literally putting their freedom on the line, going through the process of getting arrested, handcuffed, put in a police van or bus, fingerprinted, mug-shotted, fined and sometimes charged with crimes -- usually charges that are unsupportable and ultimately dropped. Are Mainstream Media Covering 21st Century Freedom Riders Fighting For Health Care Civil Rights & Ending Wars
The agents handcuffed him and took possession of his car in which the alleged heroin was stashed in the trunk.
He lowered the gun and, crossing to where Marlette was standing, removed his handcuffs. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
He was arrested, handcuffed and put into the back of the police van.
Paul was put into the cell,his wrists were finally freed from handcuffs.
A man who was arrested on suspicion of drink driving gave police officers the run-around after he slipped out of a pair of handcuffs and escaped from the back of a patrol car.
He was not handcuffed, but wore an electronic restraining device under a blue check shirt and gray slacks.
He adds that he is handcuffed, shackled, and chained at the waist, which has rubbed his wrists and ankles raw.
The handcuffs forced him to sit hunched forward. Times, Sunday Times
The actual authority to handcuff is cited within the opinion. The Volokh Conspiracy » Emotional Distress Lawsuit Based on Public Detention of Muslim Woman in Nightgown (During Search of Her Home)
I've never delivered a lecture when there was a chance of a detective rushing up and snapping on handcuffs. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Those stuck behind the police are arrested and dragged away in plastic ziplock handcuffs that hurt like hell and make your hands go numb.
She was led away by police in handcuffs. The Sun
By a fortuitous coincidence, it involves some real handcuffs.
Right up to the door of the plane he had his wrists handcuffed and his legs in chains. Times, Sunday Times
And now, they drew closer still, handcuffs in one hand and electric prods in the other.
Rashleigh had been respited from death, in number upwards of fifty, were placed in two large vans, strongly ironed, handcuffed and chained together, as well as to the van, which drove off at a rapid rate. Ralph Rashleigh
He is said to be keen to avoid being publicly arrested and handcuffed. The Sun
Photographs taken at the airport showed him wearing light trousers and an open-necked shirt, his hands handcuffed, being escorted away by police.
The pair were handcuffed, taken to the county jail, strip-searched and charged with criminal trespass.
The police officer clicked a pair of handcuffs around his wrists.
Most of each day was spent crouched on a floor, one hand shackled to one ankle with handcuffs. Times, Sunday Times
The master-at-arms immediately walked over toward Jack, taking out a pair of handcuffs.
There was a click as the handcuffs snapped into place.
He shows off for friends by sneaking out the key and getting himself out of handcuffs, even when he's manacled behind the back.
They were removed from the room and handcuffed by additional policemen outside.
The minister was handcuffed to the protester for about half an hour.
The police clapped the handcuffs on the man before he could escape.
The policeman tried to handcuff him but the boy kept pushing him away, so he called for backup.
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.
All a Filipina wants when looking because a handcuff is a deep-rooted undying relationship. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
The officer then aimed three blows towards his face and another one to his leg as he handcuffed him and bundled him into a car.
He was arrested at 4: 45 p.m., handcuffed and placed in the back of the police cruiser.
The brothers were held in handcuffs for ten minutes before being set free. Times, Sunday Times
He also made reference to injuries to his wrists which he stated were caused by the application of handcuffs.
A goatherd has been arrested, so his goats roam untended; a man has been brought in, bruised and handcuffed, for asking an American patrol for help for his wounded daughter.
Finally, he reached into his knapsack, removing a pair of handcuffs and leg shackles to restrain Nathan.
A spokesman for the Prison Service said that, as with the previous escapes, the convict had a three-man escort who were under orders to keep the prisoner in handcuffs at all times.
He was handcuffed, and in due course brought to Rotherham, at which place he arrived between seven and eight o'clock at night.
The crook was handcuffed and taken down to the police precinct.
A policeman put handcuffs on the suspect.
If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality. Officer.com: Top News Stories
So, you seem to -- I may interpret this wrong -- but you seem to feel that government is kind of handcuffed in this situation. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2010
Membership in such program acts as golden handcuffs: After prepaying for shipping, members become valuable repeat customers, in order to get the most out of the fee. Retailers Team Up Against Amazon
The prisoner wore handcuffs.
It has been revealed that white staff warders handcuffed a prisoner to his cell bars, pulled down his trousers and smeared black boot polish on his buttock, in a racially motivated attack.
After a terrifying two minutes the crew overpowered Mukonyi, handcuffed him, and regained control of the jet.
Manny is in a total daze as he's processed through the judicial system, handcuffed, and sent to jail.
Personally, I'd love for the studios to unhandcuff him and allow him to release a Director's Cut of …Compass and also let him do the next two books ON HIS OWN TERMS. Chris Weitz Directing Twilight's New Moon Sequel « FirstShowing.net
He waved a pair of handcuffs under his prisoner's nose, forcing him to notice the razor sharp inner edges.
According to the Bucks Free Press, the local force, Thames Valley, has itself been relieved of a truncheon, "five blue strobe flashing lights", handcuffs valued at £32.69, and a six-foot tall cardboard officer that was stolen from High Wycombe station. Hugh Muir's diary
They handcuffed the man and took him away. The Sun
The handcuffed man tried to shield his face from the attack. The Sun
Jim could see another set of handcuffs, securing Blair's wrists behind his back.
If conducting multiple inquiries without ever informing commissioners meant that the staff was "handcuffed," we shudder to think what Ms. Schapiro's new hands-off management will mean for investors. Just Don't Mention Bernie
He appeared in court yesterday blindfolded and handcuffed and was remanded on bail for a fortnight. Times, Sunday Times
Or, Three - one to screw in the bulb, and two to listen to him brag about the What do you call a handcuffed man? Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
She was arrested for breaching the peace and taken away in handcuffs. Times, Sunday Times
Did we forget gates versus crawley incident where a Harvard professor was handcuffed in his own home, what does that tell you about police and administration highhandedness in America, just like shah rukh, thousands of Americans go through the torture of being bullied by police everyday in America itself. The Shahrukh Khan Affair – The Aftermath « Antiwar.com Blog
Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours.
The hosts had placed a pair of handcuffs on our bed. Times, Sunday Times
The policeman slipped a pair of handcuffs on his wrists.
He was led away to jail in handcuffs.
They stop digging and come together, standing side by side as they are handcuffed together and shackled at the ankles. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
He places the handcuff's chains on the rifle's muzzle and pushes it to the air and causes the rifle holder to pull the trigger.
He was bound by golden handcuffs to the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading depart-ment.
The house-boys were directed to fetch handcuffs, and, one by one, the Lunga runaways were haled down out of their trees and made fast. Chapter 11
We've replaced their cuff links with handcuffs and moved their photos from magazine covers to wanted posters.
The steward then dragged him out towards the police who handcuffed him. The Sun
I saw a police officer yesterday who had three sets of handcuffs, three loaded Glock magazines, one Glock pistol, radios, telephones, a billy club, sunglasses and heaven knows what he was carrying I couldn't see.
His wrists broke as he tried to catch himself, splintering under the weight of the senseless lunks of people handcuffed to him.
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He was taken by ambulance to hospital where police handcuffed him to his bed. Times, Sunday Times
Three men were manhandled to the ground and handcuffed as they attempted to rush the event.
After she left, I noticed my one hand was handcuffed to the bedrail. Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan
Both were handcuffed and the jet made an emergency landing. The Sun
She looks at the watch on her wrist, checks the time, checks the faint marks of handcuffs beneath the watchstrap, says: THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
I see him being led handcuffed into a concentration camp.
He had his handcuffs and spancels (ancle-beads, they call them for a nickname) with him. A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada
Inmates can also move around freely, without fetters or handcuffs, and families can visit twice a week.
He appeared in court yesterday blindfolded and handcuffed and was remanded on bail for a fortnight. Times, Sunday Times
The officers in her barracks handcuffed her and treated her like an accused suspect.
The handcuffs forced him to sit hunched forward. Times, Sunday Times
She was taken to the police station in handcuffs.
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.
The cons couldn't move, they were handcuffed to a bar in front of the seat.
She asked him to get out of the cruiser after she arrested him, and she then searched him and handcuffed him.
A policeman snapped handcuffs around his wrists.
Before handcuffing him, police officer McDonald had ordered Oswald, who was sitting al the back of the auditorium, to stand up.
A sibling showed authorities a pair of handcuffs he said were used to chain his brother in the basement, according to charging documents.
The brothers were held in handcuffs for ten minutes before being set free. Times, Sunday Times
He was bound by golden handcuffs to the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading depart-ment.
When we got to the police station, they handcuffed me to the stairwell.
The inquiry heard how warders handcuffed a prisoner, believed to be a foreign national, to his cell bars, pulled down his trousers and smeared black boot polish onto his buttocks.
The purses he is receiving are the biggest of his career, but it has turned out to be something of a golden handcuffs deal. Times, Sunday Times
After a terrifying two minutes the crew overpowered Mukonyi, handcuffed him, and regained control of the jet.
The patient may be handcuffed or shackled with a set of manacles that are cuffed with a chain linking the ankles.
The shoring was removed, so that the tunnel started to collapse, and protesters were dragged out by ropes attached to handcuffs.
The mum of one was then handcuffed and put in leg restraints. The Sun
In our view, the use of handcuffs does not render the verdict unsafe.
Maybe it had something to do with the highly effective hunt sabbing seen on the day, or maybe the hunt master just realised he'd left his cousin handcuffed to the bed. Indymedia Ireland
Previously, anyone stopped by police for kerb-crawling would be issued with a summons, but under the new law they would be handcuffed, arrested and liable to appear promptly in court.
We handcuffed him, but he broke the chain of the handcuffs by pulling them apart and ended up wounding his hand.
He was bound by golden handcuffs to the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading depart-ment.
The policeman snapped the handcuffs around her wrist.
Harry Houdini, the escapologist, was at Gerrard 1312 in 1916: renowned as an inspired self publicist, he had himself listed as Harry Houdini, Handcuff King. Ring Up Yer Dead
Arpaio's cruelness reaches epic proportions when detained pregnant woman are forced to give birth handcuffed to gurneys. Zack de la Rocha: Why the Boycott of Arizona Continues
He is alleged to have resisted arrest after failing a breath test and was taken away in handcuffs. The Sun
The mum of one was then handcuffed and put in leg restraints. The Sun
Then he called our ruffianly scallywags of a crew on to the main deck, eyed them up and down, and ignoring our captain, asked me how many pairs of handcuffs were on board. The Call Of The South 1908
With his hands handcuffed behind his back, he was flanked in the dock by seven police officers wearing body armour and thick black gloves.
He held baby son Ben only once, handcuffed to prison wardens and given no time alone, before Ben died.
The unlocked handcuffs dangling from his wrist dragged along the ground as he was lifted into the wagon.
The unlocked handcuffs dangling from his wrist dragged along the ground as he was lifted into the wagon.
Those who dealt that blow," said he, "were already well used to this little instrument"; and so saying he produced a pair of "darbies," a kind of handcuff made of a double ring of iron secured by a lock. In Search of the Castaways

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