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"Thrall" in a Sentence (17 examples)
The populace was in thrall to the dictator's whims.
Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed."
I was surprised by how completely in thrall she was to him.
I was surprised to find out how completely in thrall she is to him.
She remained in thrall to her childhood memories.
They were in thrall to the charismatic leader.
My father was always a thrall to alcohol.
My servant, which that is my thrall by right
Hereat its Marid appeared and said to him, "Adsum! thy thrall between thy hands is come: ask of me whatso thou wantest."
And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls, and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
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Today's kids are in thrall to their phones.
Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
[Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.
A more enlightened Conservative prime minister, better attuned to the “one nation” tradition of the party of Disraeli and Macmillan, less in thrall to Little Englanders, and less intimidated by the peculiarly vicious and Manichaean worldview of the Daily Mail, would have taken a more consensual approach.
Labour needs to engage positively with the unions on wider policy issues, but not be in thrall with them.
Rather than to live thrall, under the awe Of lordly lokes, wrapped within my cloke […]
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