Example sentences for: thrall

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

  • I've tried to do the same in writing about the place, for while I think Celebration is a flawed experiment with insidious implications, I also think that Disney was adventurous to try it, and that the architects and planners Disney employed to make it a reality are in thrall to a worthy ideal.

  • 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.

  • It was a doomed enterprise but a noble one: For a few years, Coppola did free himself and his protégés from Hollywood's thrall.

  • 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.


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