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Example sentences for "shackle"

Lexicographically close words:
shabbiest; shabbily; shabbiness; shabby; shack; shackled; shackles; shackling; shacks; shad
  1. Hicks picked up the discarded shackle and threw it at Granger, striking him smartly on the chest.

  2. Hicks threw aside the unfinished shackle and advanced threateningly on his critic.

  3. And as the last shackle came off her wrist she slid into his arms.

  4. He forced a foreclaw to shackle the edge of the crater, looking down.

  5. In the joining shackle (D), the pin is oval, its greater diameter being in the direction of the strain.

  6. In joining the lengths together, the round end of the shackle is placed towards the anchor.

  7. This method of making a shackle is the same whether the material is 1/4 in.

  8. Bending: The shackle should be bent as shown in the sketch.

  9. Look for badly worn brake side cover bushing, shackle bushings and studs, or brake operating stud bearing.

  10. Remove brake shackle bolt from rigid fork on left side of vehicle.

  11. By moving the draft ring or shackle towards the plowed land the plow is made to cut a wider furrow, moving it away from the plowed land causes the plow to cut narrower.

  12. To make the plow run deep the draft ring or shackle is placed in the upper holes or notches of the clevis; to make it run shallow the ring is placed in the lower holes.

  13. The machinery and capstan, which had been put in motion some time previously to haul in the grapnel cable, now took it in easily and regularly, except when a shackle or swivel jarred it for a moment.

  14. The usual preparations were then made to shackle the Cable ere it was cut and cast overboard with its tow rope of iron wire, an operation which always caused the gravest misgivings.

  15. The chain shackle and wire-rope clambered up out of the groove of the V wheel, got on the rim, and rushed down with a crash on the smaller wheel, giving a severe shock to the Cable.

  16. None liked to go forward, where every jar of the machinery, every shackle that passed the drum, every clank, made their hearts leap into their mouths.

  17. The whole of the two miles of wire rope, grapnel and all, would have been lost, but that the stoppers caught the shackle at the end, and saved the experiment from a fatal termination.

  18. It was a relief to see the end cut at last, and splash over, with shackle chain and wire rope, into the water.

  19. With the same ardour he shuns all that can shackle his action; and this is a happy thing for the human race, for it is to mankind [p334] at large that in the long-run obstacles are prejudicial.

  20. On a cruiser the heavier stand-by should also be kept ready to shackle to the chain or bend to the hawser.

  21. Same with halliards; the tackle will lift a ton, the pin in the block or shackle not five hundred pounds.

  22. And so it came to pass; for the young horse took unhesitatingly one of the wildest paths, and went on as rapidly as the shackle would permit.

  23. A shackle for uniting lengths of chain, or connecting a chain with an object.

  24. Swiftly, surely, he worked in the darkness to jam the ring through the shackle at the bailer's top.

  25. They were telling him that they saw a ring--a cameo--jammed solidly into the shackle at the bailer's end.

  26. Then, with a rush, he let his hands follow up the slanting thing, up to a rounded top, to a heavy ring and a shackle that was on the end of a cable, thin and taut.

  27. To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

  28. The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.

  29. In mooring, you should always have a shackle near the hawse-hole, for clearing hawse.

  30. Chain cables have a shackle at every fifteen fathoms, and one swivel at the first shackle.

  31. Rouse it in through the hawse-hole and shackle it.

  32. Shackle the chain again, heave taut, and cast off the lashings.

  33. Yes; old Mary told me, and Mrs Shackle mentioned it too.

  34. This gave the midshipman a moment's breathing time; and he had drawn himself up behind the bush by the time the farmer had closed the door, the sudden change from darkness to light preventing Shackle from seeing the spy upon his proceedings.

  35. Yes," came from within, and Mrs Shackle appeared wiping her hands.

  36. The horse tugged at the tumbril, and Sir Risdon went thoughtfully along the field, toward a clump of trees lying in a hollow, while Master Shackle went on chuckling to himself.

  37. Mrs Shackle said you might have been killed.

  38. Ram came up to him with his basket, but, just as he began speaking, Shackle called him away, and once more the prisoner was left alone.

  39. I'm sure you needn't be so cross this morning, master," said Mrs Shackle reproachfully.

  40. Mrs Shackle complained bitterly to her lord and master about different lots of cream being spoiled, but Farmer Shackle snubbed her.

  41. Mrs Shackle was very quiet and grave-looking and silent for a time, but at last she ventured a question.

  42. Mrs Shackle drew back as she said this, the door closed, and Archy sprang up, darted out of the gateway, and hurried along the path as fast as the darkness would allow, stopping from time to time to listen.

  43. New bolts were put in each shackle and swivel, and the capstan was increased in diameter, being belted with thick plates of iron.

  44. Suddenly the chain shackle and wire-rope attached to the cable came in over the wheel at the bows with considerable violence.

  45. The Frenchman pretended not to understand him, but a pistol placed at his head quickly made him come below and take off the shackle which held the slave to the bench.

  46. To leave the poor man was contrary to his nature, and yet to release him without knocking off the shackle was impossible.

  47. They are all of the great family of men, and if there is one shackle upon any of them it would be far better to lift the load from them than to pile additional loads upon them.

  48. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs, and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this Republic.

  49. Without further parley, Price did as he was bidden, and very soon he and Ned were busy knocking out the pin from the shackle in the cable which happened to be nearest the hawse-pipe.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shackle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anchor; arrest; bind; bit; bond; brake; bridle; burden; cage; chain; check; chock; clog; cloister; collar; confine; constrain; coop; cork; cramp; crib; cripple; cuff; curb; damper; detain; drag; embarrass; enclose; encumber; enslave; entangle; entrap; entwine; fasten; fetter; gag; halter; hamper; hamstring; handcuff; handicap; hinder; hobble; hold; immure; impede; impound; inhibit; involve; iron; keep; lame; lash; leash; lime; lumber; manacle; moor; muzzle; net; peg; pen; picket; pillory; pinion; pound; rail; reins; restrain; restraint; restrict; rope; secure; shackle; snarl; spoke; stay; stocks; stop; stranglehold; strap; tangle; tether; tie; toil; trammel; tyrannize; yoke