How To Use Thrall In A Sentence

I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral
Our first reaction is enthralled delight, but then ominous overtones register.
It's heartening to know that not all Mexicans are in thrall to the mighty Christmas tree and still put up nacimientos in their homes! OK! Now that I know . . . . . .
Most of us find the oceans enthralling.
His conceit and awful orange hair will carry on enthralling a worldwide audience.

Born one minute apart, we were a rambunctious twosome, enthralled with our twinship. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More
He appropriated just enough of the rhetoric of each faction to keep them all enthralled and unalienated. The Times Literary Supplement
An increasingly reclusive figure, he was by this stage plagued by money worries and seemingly in thrall to plastic surgery. The Sun
I am on the left and in thrall to Karl Marx, Gul tells Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror. Pakistan cricketer calls on Marxist in case for the defence
A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoner inthralled! The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Thrall: I don't know what's come over you and your men, but this bloodlust is a liability that I can't afford.
Before beginning his journey, he enthralled the sizable gathering, which had assembled at the starting point, with his magic.
He has been distant, hostile, and completely in the thrall of consumer groups. Times, Sunday Times
One delegate, amidst great applause, said he felt glorified that the party was disenthralled and redeemed. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
What you get is an absolutely enthralling listen, one built with rapturous conduction and taut harmony.
Peter was finding the Bright family saga less than enthralling. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
The art scene was still firmly in thrall to the cultural boycott, which restricted South African artists from showing overseas, and overseas artists from showing here.
Children and the young at heart had a ball with a great range of fun-filled events including face painters, clowns, balloon modellers and live musicians lined-up to keep them enthralled.
Hal is indeed shallow, smug, chubby, in love with himself and in thrall to his late clergyman father's last piece of advice that he should chase only the hottest totty.
Whom changeful Fortune martyrs, guides and thralls! The Age Reviewed
Apparently in thrall to the resignation deadline set by David Trimble, the British government moved towards reintroducing direct rule.
With the accomplishment of that grand end, said he, "our voices will ascend to Heaven over a country re-united, over a people disinthralled, and God will bless us. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
It was not creative tennis but it was enthralling nonetheless.
Many women are virtual slaves to their pimps, snared by false protestations of love, and then held in his thrall by a combination of violence and spurious affection.
He used to have a seventh thrall, an ex-stripper named Ebony, but Eric packed her and her two kids up and sent them to live out at Orchard Lake with the werewolves, then released her from thralldom. Crossed
I stood inthralled until, even as he was talking, the clock struck three, when he rose up, and moving slowly across the floor, barely visible, murmured regretfully that he must be off, with which he faded away down the back stairs. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
It's not bad exposition, and it's enthralling in a ‘listening to the stories of an old school friend you've met at the pub’ kind of way.
The sight this shower presents on Earth is expected to be enthralling.
If they fail to enthrall and enrapture the audience, The King of Marvin Gardens ends up a very slow, very confusing film.
Jimmy Spencer is certainly the man in form and a shimmy past his marker and a chip just over the bar enthralled the crowd.
It's not bad exposition, and it's enthralling in a ‘listening to the stories of an old school friend you've met at the pub’ kind of way.
There is something spine-tingling and enthralling about the best public art, the kind that touches the emotions and makes the eyes widen involuntarily. Times, Sunday Times
They call upon arcane strikes, power words, and spells to unleash raging torrents of cold, fire, or lighting, confuse and enthrall the weak-minded , or even turn invisible or walk through walls.
The layers of moral and political complexity pile up to quietly enthralling effect. Times, Sunday Times
Learn the crafts and the skills and never be at a loss because the thrall mart is out of stock. First serious bow?q
The surrealistic adventure game that will enthrall games of all ages with its moody atmosphere, you'll encounter engaging narrative and a cast of colorful characters.
Meanwhile, a raven - haired Magyar concert violinist adds an exotic love interest to an already enthralling narrative.
The story of this plucky underdog enthralled the British public. Times, Sunday Times
Children and the young at heart had a ball with a great range of fun-filled events including face painters, clowns, balloon modellers and live musicians lined-up to keep them enthralled.
He is not in thrall to the media.
An ethereal beauty named Fabrissa enthralls Freddie and then astonishes him when she begins to speak of his dead brother. Anna Mundow reviews 'The Winter Ghosts' by 'Labyrinth' author Kate Mosse
Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.
Visually, the city keeps you enthralled, with its setting atop a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags.
Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision.
Simply a fantastic and enthralling end to a superb album.
If they are redeemed, then are they delivered from all misery, virtually or actually, whereunto they were inthralled, and that by the intervention of a ransom. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
They rejoiced in the change, not merely from sympathy with the disinthralled negroes, but because it had emancipated them from a disheartening surveillance, and opened new fields of usefulness. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
But most enthralling was her attraction to two people for whom she wrote her most ardent poems.
My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves.
The abject volte-face that inevitably followed such episodes left him ever more in her thrall. THE ENDLESS GAME
The audience were enthralled by the quality and sacredness of the concert and showed their appreciation time and time again throughout the performance and at its conclusion.
It is five months since the Duke of York visited Thrall as he began his new role as a special ambassador for trade and industry.
London, a marvellous fairyland to her; tell her of "rags" in which he had played the leading part; of things he had done when he was in Rio for three months -- Rio! the very name enthralled her! Captivity
The reader gawps, in turns amused and appalled, at an enthralling variety bill of Victorians and Social Gospellers.
Reader must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness.
It isn't hurting all that much, but the itching is periodically enthralling in a remarkably unpleasant way, and the clogged Eustachian tube is an uncomfortable pressure. From Twitter 07-13-2009
Sara was not sanguine about the prospects, for all of Midgarde had been held too long in thrall.
In the final the large crowd was enthralled by a game of intense skill and terrific excitement.
Despite his age, Greenspan is still said to be enthralled by the statistics over which he has pored for many years.
The whodunit is fun, but as with the entire Honorable Daisy Dalrymple saga it is the sense of time and place that brings enthralled readers to a bygone era. Black Ship-Carola Dunn « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
That the Japanese, in thrall to China from time immemorial, should try to subjugate their vast neighbor seemed an inversion of the cosmic order.
The promised blood and snotters had also failed to arrive with only the odd skirmish to disfigure what was turning into an enthralling game of rugby.
What is more, the use of a black panel in the background had an enthralling effect.
She kept her audience enthralled throughout her twenty - minute performance.
This was very baffling to his suit; but then these slumbers were accompanied by agreeable dreams, which completely inthralled the senses of the drowsy lover, so he continued to dream on, while all Granada scoffed at his infatuation, and groaned at the treasures lavished for a song. The Alhambra
Today, orchestral musicians wish to assert their identities again, to escape the thrall of the baton at last.
Their antics are a distraction from the larger questions - but no less enthralling for that.
In the 16th century, the first known figurative use of "enthrall" appeared in the following advice, translated from a Latin text by Thomas Newton: "A man should not ... enthrall his credit and honour to Harlots. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
The country's economy is largely in thrall to the big companies.
As a newly reminted citizen of Azeroth, and someone who appreciates Asian culture, I am enthralled by the neatness of the Lunar Festival. MMOG Nation » 2006 » January
For the better security of these new-born civil rights we are now about to pass the greatest and the grandest act in this series of acts that have emancipated a race and disinthralled a nation. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
I am thankful for fear's fleeting nature, yet still inthralled by it's presence when it is here. Tales of an Alderwoman: Living with fear
He could bring his stories to life and enthralled many with his memories from former times.
I always end up in this kind of thralldom to my characters. A Conversation with Carol Shields
Still, she was pretty, and pretty seemed to be enough to enthrall Fabian's attention.
I have no doubt that this was the intent of the film-makers: that we ultimately find Ben shallow, and the crew who becomes enthralled with such scum is pitiful.
The result is about as enthralling a story as the life of an English professor can reasonably be.
Then you need one miracle to get through the edification, that is the enthrallment stage and then you need another miracle to get to canalization. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009
He says the rawness of the genre continues to enthrall him.
They enthralled the crowds night after night, giving them expert entertainment with real style and pure panache.
a man, with all the moving instincts of a loving and tender heart: and as a ruler, sure of his duty, he spoke the disinthralling edict, when multitudes still doubted: as a man he rejoiced in the glorious prospect of a race emancipated from a bondage more cruel than the grave, and elevated to the privileges of manhood and the opportunity of respect and honor. A Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
We want food freed from the grip of science rather than further in thrall to it.
Funds to finance these huge war loans was borrowed from China and Japan, putting America ever deeper in thrall to the Asian powers, and undermining its finances. Eric Margolis: Attention All Republican Flag-Wavers -- If You Want Wars Abroad, Pay for Them
Mack, for such a cold fish, is enthralling, partly because of the shimmer of uncertainty about what is true and what is not.
That's a reminder of just how much of the conservative lobbyist's enthralling secret world remains unrevealed, despite all the national coverage to date.
His comments are just as enthralling as his site.
You are either a stupid troll in thrall to the screechmonkeys that do your thinking for you and knowing you are too stupid to even TRY to discuss the topic or you are a mental patient who needs to increase your meds. Think Progress » Glenn Beck welcomes Scott Brown to Washington: ‘This one could end with a dead intern.’
The high-octane performance of one young science teacher had us all enthralled. Times, Sunday Times
To playback sounds of galloping, roaring and trumpeting, the horses, lions and jumbos enthralled the parents who had a tough time to spot their tots in the masked group.
The subject of women held in thralldom to men by mysterious powers came to mind the other day when I read the story of Elizabeth Smart, author of the prose poem or the poetic novella By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, a perfervid retelling of her infatuation and affair with George Granville Barker, a poet who had achieved success at the age of 18. How to Hypnotize Women
Once she'd got used to the motion and the fact that the temperature was at boiling point, Posy found it all enthralling. TICKLED PINK
Such as capitalism have pushed a lot of oppression on human, enthrall the spirits, dissimilate the daily life, and technology dominate the human beings.
The most enthralling aspect of No Direction Home was undoubtedly Dylan's willing participation.
So the capable spinmeisters play games, entertain and enthrall with heartening prognostications that deficits will be dissolved by the magic elixir of future growth.
Each felt that they were but faint expressions of the joy and gratitude demanded of a disinthralled and regenerated nation Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Last year, he thralled and apalled observers when he wore a white suit with black braiding which gave him an uncanny resemblance to late king of rock'n roll. ANC Daily News Briefing
The older man would suddenly sit down and begin a story that would enthrall you so completely, you had no knowledge of the passing of time.
For me it was a source of enthralling empathy.
They know that the mainstream press is in thrall to power and is therefore compromised, thus they're seeking a new path to redress their grievances -- and new antidotes to the poison spread by the powerful to intoxicate the minds and hearts of the powerless. William Astore: The Failure of Our "Free" Press
He was, as Miss Tattersall had said, "infatuated," but I put a more kindly construction on the description than she had done -- perhaps "enthralled" would have been a better word. The Jervaise Comedy
Man has lived in thrall to the sun since the dawn of civilisation. Times, Sunday Times
The subject of women held in thralldom to men by mysterious powers came to mind the other day when I read the story of Elizabeth Smart, author of the prose poem or the poetic novella By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, a perfervid retelling of her infatuation and affair with George Granville Barker, a poet who had achieved success at the age of 18. How to Hypnotize Women
Academics apart, most people who devote themselves to writing about contemporary art stumble into this underpaid, uncelebrated, but sometimes enthralling field because nothing better has turned up in their lives.
The Diablo games haven't exactly carved out their niche in gaming history with their rich, enthralling narratives.
Slave, serf, bondsman The peasant farmers were the thralls of the lord of the castle.
The popular, incomparable ‘Mr Clown’ entertained the children, regaling them for hours with a thousand tricks which enthralled the youngsters - and not a few adults as well, it is worth adding!
It is an enthralling book of revelations that he peels away like the delicate skins of an onion, constantly delighting his readers as they urgently devour its 483 pages.
Many who set out to learn the art of graftage become so enthralled that it becomes an addiction.
His writing is lucid and enthralling.
What they do manage is to build and inhabit an intimate space which is quite enthralling.
You will be enthralled by the skill and artistry of the Russian ice stars.
Why does the story of Moby Dick continue to enthrall generation after generation?
Thus left alone, with my reason disinthralled, disenchanted, I surveyed more calmly the extent of the actual peril with which we were threatened, and the peril seemed less, so surveyed. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
Not a fitting way to end this enthralling affair but still the right result. Times, Sunday Times
She practiced religiously, gathered confidence, was enthralled by her new adventure.
Their powers of recall, often stretching back to early childhood memories, are utterly enthralling.
But the main point is, if you are right, if God really is the petty, narrow-minded, bigoted, capricious, cruel deity that you portray, then eternity with such a monstrous creature would be worse than any "Hell" your terror-thralled brain can imagine. Dallas Methodist bishop to local pastor: Gay is not exactly OK | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
This has been quite simply enthralling television.
Conversely, they can ponder with you what is not even contemplated by District residents because of their thralldom to the Congressional veto. Egypt uprising should inspire D.C. voting rights activists, Nader says
As a young boy I was enthralled listening to my father's stories and of his experiences while on military duty in Thailand.
This book is such a perfect send-up of the primary Heinlein themes, and such a jaundiced/humorous take on where the genre's thralldom to Heinlein has taken the field that it is practically a manifesto and declaration of independence for those who are critical of "traditional" SF. MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
He can enthrall you with a story from his past, and knows the ways of the bush the way city people know the way home from work.
Caribbean cruise are your passage to an enchanting world with enthralling experiences.
We have a congress that is in thrall to special interest groups.
Alone and agonizingly thirsty, the boy's thoughts travel through his violent past: his father's gruesome murder, his twin sister's abduction, his own thralldom to gangster culture: Everything I remember is too vivid. The Book That Broke the Color Line
The play of politics, with its betrayal and intrigue and calculation and conspiracy, holds the common persons in thrall…
On the way here, she had been enthralled, mesmerised, spellbound by the area.
Bush Jr, inevitably; the warped, sometimes demented Nixon; but John F Kennedy, hopelessly in thrall to a world of lust, isn't pavilioned in praise either. American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton
By its nature, the music was more an occasion for violinistic exuberance than musical enthrallment. Globe and Mail
This box charts her journey from folkie to enthralling jazzer. The Sun
The girl shares her stories with the enthralled young heir to the Sultanate, who returns again and again to hear incredible yarns about one-armed heroes, hunchbacked ferrymen, giants, voracious gem eaters, conniving hedgehogs, harpies, djinns and singing Manticores. Descent Into Cleveland
He hoped to see them shake themselves loose and so be disenthralled.
From the beginning his audience - and there was always an audience - were in thrall to his idiosyncratic and impassioned deliveries.
They are zealous in the work and are casting their whole influence towards the redemption of society from the thralldom of intemperance.
The baseball game completely enthralled the crowd.
Both sculptures seemed emblematic of this enthralling city by the sea. Times, Sunday Times
Forget they one love-thralled, whose faith the world The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Watchmen was the first film to reinvigorate the beleaguered genre, and this adaptation of Mark Millar’s revered graphic novel brings the super-hero – sometimes quite literally – kicking and screaming into the modern world, grounding costumed vigilantes in the laws of reality more than any film before and thus making the notion of caped crusaders absolutely enthralling again. Darren says KICK-ASS really does KICK-ASS!!! | Obsessed With Film
Once she'd got used to the motion and the fact that the temperature was at boiling point, Posy found it all enthralling. TICKLED PINK
Dance, jazz, be-bop, 50s doo-wop, and standard jangle-pop all get thrown into the mix at varying points, while remaining inimitably in the thrall of their particular brand of noise.
They became enthralled as the lumps of clay transformed into lively pots with animal characteristics.
The match, played in ideal conditions, kept the large attendance enthralled for long periods of the opening half as the lead see-sawed back and forth, first one side gaining the initiative then the other.
Lowest in the social order were the thralls, or slaves.
The baseball game completely enthralled the crowd.
More and more readers will be drawn to romance fiction because it nurtures, enthralls and touches their souls. Interview with Sheryl Jane Stafford, by Suzanne Coleburn of the Belles and Beaux of Romance, October, 2001
He hoped to see them shake themselves loose and so be disenthralled.
Boris had the crowd enthralled with his dexterity on the whistle and harmonica.
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, we must disenthrall ourselves, and then we will save our church.
The baseball game completely enthralled the crowd.
The children listened enthralled as the storyteller unfolded her tale.
Obama lives on planet Obama, an almost Twilight Zone incarnation brought to you by an enthralled media class, a clerisy, a certain zeitgeist in the wake of the left's long march, ... On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Set himself to appease her, to enthrall and entice her all over again. THE PERFECT LOVER
His mind was already awhirl with ways to bypass the pacifistic Thrall and the crotchety old Cairne and get the Horde what it needed. The Shattering
My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves.
Written and directed by Adam Rapp, starring Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrel, Ed Harris, and Amelia Warner, “Winter Passing” is a film whose unassertive, low key existence continually enthralls me. Overlooked Movie Monday: Winter Passing » Scene-Stealers
Visually, the city keeps you enthralled, with its setting atop a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags.
He attempted to rise, but found that his fever – thralled limbs refused to obey the impulse of his will. For the term of his natural life
I do not turn to Clarissa in times of duress, but then I am an unregenerate reader, too enthralled by Lovelace's legerdemain to linger over Richardson's edifying sentiments.
They watched her switch from the attic Shirley to the downstairs Shirley with appalled, enthralled admiration.
If you weren't still listening at the back there by then you would have missed some fine performances – Aneurin Barnard capturing and blending the arrogance and charm of the man in perfect proportions, Karen Gillan managing to portray a naïf Shrimpton was barely 18 when she started out in his thrall with enough energy and edge to prevent her from lapsing into ditsiness or dumbwittedness. TV review: We'll Take Manhattan; David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating; Putin, Russia and the West
Any reader would be enthralled by the story and find themselves rapidly taking it in.
He has morphed a quirky novel into an enthralling, tender and, crucially, fun piece of cinema.
There is something spine-tingling and enthralling about the best public art, the kind that touches the emotions and makes the eyes widen involuntarily. Times, Sunday Times
At Heidelberg, making the acquaintance of M. Fortnoye contemporaneously with my departure, he had become more enthralled than he ever confessed to this radiant traveler -- whom he called a packman, but regarded as a M.rcury -- and his pretty scheme of matrimony in motion. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
But Dr. Jonas enthralled me with a protractor and precalculus. Chocolate & Vicodin
This kid was so enthralled that when the flight attendant came by to offer drinks he put his finger to his lips and said "shh" and went right back to what seemed to be a video violence addiction. Michelle Renee: Have We Become Comfortably Numb to Violence and Abuse?
Our first reaction is enthralled delight, but then ominous overtones register.
And it borders on the unenthralling to have the conversation at social gatherings turn to slugs and cabbageworms the minute I show up.
Still, Fitzgerald strikes me as a fairly in the best sense of that word disenthralled type person. Firedoglake » Be Nice to the Man With the Double-Barrel Shotgun
I was upset with my mother for reminding me of this on a night that I wanted to spend in thrall to the optimism of Christmas - fear not, for behold: I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people - and to the sweet prospect of waking up to tiny pajamaed children filled with glee. Archive 2009-01-04
Brown's rough ideas and lyrics and transform them into real songs, while Serrano was able to translate Brown's poorly articulated studio suggestions (a running joke was that he referred to acetates as "agitates") into enthralling, artful production. Chicago Reader
The following Monday morning, I was ecstatic, enthralled, even on the brink of uncontainable happiness, as I sat in my favorite class at school: third period Social Studies.
The Last Emperor is one of the most artful and enthralling epics ever committed to film.
And now this third death, the one for which everyone at Toynton Grange had probably been superstitiously waiting, in thrall to the theurgy that death comes in threes. She Closed Her Eyes
His erudite book also casts in relief the less enthralling aspects of the contemporary Games. The Times Literary Supplement
Even his haughty, sullen expression enthralled her. Warlock
James Hutton, a Scottish scientist, became enthralled with the fantastic histories he saw recorded in the rocks of his homeland.
Years later, he described "a state of thralldom ... experiencing tremors day and night. 'The Pop Revolution'
Needless to say, I was enthralled to view the pilot of the new series whilst I slumbered last night.
Woods, a self confessed ‘old bebopper’, was deeply in thrall to the work of Charlie Parker, but the ERM's remit included nods to the emergent avant garde.
His gaze held her in thrall.
Come with us now as we journey with Ninshi in her quest to free the person dearest to her heart from the great and terrible beast that holds him in thralled - the Manthycore! Archive 2010-01-01
The boy was enthralled by the stories of adventure.
Most courts are still in thrall to local governments.
He has been distant, hostile, and completely in the thrall of consumer groups. Times, Sunday Times
The other survivor is a bombastic general from the other clan, in thrall to military glory, in love with death. Little Big Soldier
They were enthralled with the play.
According to the official figures, more than one in 10 of the adult population plays this pesky game at least once a month, while 250,000 are so enthralled that they pay annual subscriptions to a golf club.
Causation and convergence were still operative, but they functioned more subtly, and the audience was no longer enthralled in hypothesis building.
I believe that peasants should be bound to the land as unfree thralls who do the bidding of the freemen without question.
If there were naught else, it were enough that you have called a freeborn thane's daughter a thrall to your evil mistress. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
No day will I be thralled to wine-skin cooled by breeze261 The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
While the preliminary was full of excitement, the final was enthralling.
The ten thralls answered him with one mouth and in sequent words, saying, Whatso thou biddest us, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But my proud one doth worke the greater scath, through sweet allurement of her louely hew: that she the better may in bloody bath, of such poore thralls her cruell hands embrew. Amoretti and Epithalamion
Occasionally in life we come across a piece of art, a tune or a lyric, a poem or a piece of writing that immediately grabs our attention, and keeps us enthralled.
For more precious chattel ne greater ransom ne might he put for us, than his blessed body, his precious blood, and his holy life, that he thralled for us; and all he offered for us that never did sin. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
`Anita is just enthralled," Marc whispered softly as Effie came into the room to serve white wine in exquisite stemware. LASTING TREASURES
We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself

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