FETTER in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for FETTER, such as:

1. They fetter the prisoner to the wall.
2. You will break those fetters, you will flee.
3. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
4. A man lay fettered on the floor of the prison cell.
5. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing fifty pounds.

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 Meanings and Examples of FETTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fetter
 v.  restrain with U-shaped bar for ankles or feet; impede; hamper
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  You will drink water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to your limbs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
4  We were at Newgate in a few minutes, and we passed through the lodge where some fetters were hanging up on the bare walls among the prison rules, into the interior of the jail.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXII
5  'We'll say I don't understand the boy, Clara,' returned Miss Murdstone, arranging the little fetters on her wrists.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
6  These reminded me, in reference to Miss Murdstone's nature, of the fetters over a jail door; suggesting on the outside, to all beholders, what was to be expected within.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
7  As for me, every word was a new heap of fetters, riveted above the last.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
8  "These yer 's a little too small for his build," said Haley, showing the fetters, and pointing out to Tom.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  In fact, the exhortation seemed rather a superfluous one to a man with a great pair of iron fetters on his feet.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Tom, whose fetters did not prevent his taking a moderate circuit, had drawn near the side of the boat, and stood listlessly gazing over the railing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  You will break those fetters, you will flee.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
12  The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing fifty pounds.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
13  They were thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the darkness and waiting for him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
14  He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  They buried the shingle close to the wall, with some dismal ceremonies and incantations, and the fetters that bound their tongues were considered to be locked and the key thrown away.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  They fetter the prisoner to the wall.
2  Then he commanded to cast her into prison and manacle and fetter her.
3  No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
4  One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters.
5  A man lay fettered on the floor of the prison cell.