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Example sentences for: shackles

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The article blames the church's nonapology on the doctrine of papal infallibility, which shackles the church to its sordid past.
He noted their rebelliousness: their efforts to rise up and throw off their shackles, the ways they cagily resisted their work requirements, the lengths they went to in feigning contentment to elude harsh treatment from their masters.
After tossing off the shackles of Franco’s long dictatorship that isolated Spain from the rest of Europe, Madrid erupted from the closet, embracing a frenetic arts and nightlife scene called la movida in the early 1980s.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out 20 years ago, when the audience largely consisted of trail-end baby boomers likely to groove to Richard Dreyfuss' desire to throw off the shackles of adulthood and play.