Example sentences for: thrall

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

  • Anecdotes are retailed in pieces and retold in interviews; the same citations crop up again and again; I lost count of how many times Barthelme attests to his debt to Beckett and explains that his writing not resembling Beckett's is a paradoxical measure of his thrall.

  • Or listen to him talk with Robert Kennedy, whose family still holds the nation in thrall.

  • The real legacy of the Woodstock era, Frank believes, was an all-embracing ethos of "hip capitalism" that holds us in its paisley thrall to this day.

  • Even the NFL, traditionally the most team-oriented of pro sports, has fallen under the thrall of individualism.

  • The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who "silence" women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.


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