Example sentences for: gagged

How can you use “gagged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sheila Jackson Lee, a posturing Texan, says that Democrats are being "bound and gagged in the courtroom" and compares the hearing to the Chicago Seven trial.

  • The bound and gagged morpheme is in fact the stepchild of the pun and initially is meant to be recombined only as long as it seems clever to do so.

  • The images we see or hear described in the movie are vaguely countercultural (a Santa-with-an-erection cartoon), not sick ( Hustler 's real-life jokes about Betty Ford's mastectomy); they are soft-core (centerfold-style nudes), not hard-core (the pictorial of a woman gagged and bound on the top of a car).

  • These are only representative examples of the bound and gagged morpheme.

  • Admittedly I have given in to temptation in coining the term “bound and gagged morpheme”--the temptation of wit.


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