Shackles Definition

Shackles Sentence Examples

• In vain the fiery young soldier strove to break loose from the shackles which hampered him.

• Direct taxation in the shape of income tax was substituted for indirect taxation previously levied, in order to relieve trade from the shackles of duties and charges which had become allembracing.

• Only when you break the shackles of illusion can you experience the reality.

• Soul power rippled through him and with it, the sensation of the invisible shackles he'd worn his entire adult life melting away.

• It was something, however, to have shaken off the shackles of ecclesiastical authority; and, even if a new authority, that of the ancients, was accepted in its stead, still progress was being made toward sounder methods of analysis.