Example sentences for: handcuffed

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

  • ...I want to see him handcuffed and pushed into a jail, like his cadres did to me 20 years ago."

  • pretzel the position of a prisoner immobilized by being handcuffed behind and, with his knees bent, having his crossed ankles shackled; used in subduing particularly unruly prisoners.

  • The detectives pose for flashbulb pictures beside handcuffed suspects or scenes of carnage, their hats rakishly tilted.

  • Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) and George F. Will ( This Week ) think Dole could have stayed in the race had she not been handcuffed by the $1,000-per-head contribution limit imposed by the quarter-century-old campaign-finance laws.

  • Losers: American companies, handcuffed by the Helms-Burton Act's outlawing of trade with Cuba.


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