How to Use bondage in a Sentence

bondage

noun
Definition of bondagenext
Synonyms for bondagenext
  • There will be the chains of bondage and the pointy hat of the Klan.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 22 July 2019
  • The thin black straps that allude to very soft bondage.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
  • We’re freed from the bondage and tyranny of sin that gripped our lives.
    — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The black lives held in bondage by the Jesuits in 1838 did not matter to Mulledy.
    — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Rufus Burgess mined gold in the river to buy his way out of bondage.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 16 May 2024
  • Few are lucky enough to achieve release from long-term bondage.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The Bone and Arrow Make bonding meet bondage with this full-frontal pose.
    — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Dead Indians to the left and African Americans to the right in bondage.
    — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2019
  • Lean out the window, golden hair; my heart is in bondage and my lute is on fire.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2015
  • Among those indicted were the people owed the bondage debts of the women brought from Bangkok.
    — Monica Davey, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • Yet the interviews still provide a glimpse at the harshness of life in bondage.
    — Raphael E. Rogers, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2022
  • When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage.
    — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Just add ropes or your favorite bondage equipment and voila!
    — Ashley Cobb, Essence, 28 July 2022
  • There are real chains of bondage here, and that’s because of the foundation.
    — The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
  • Slave resistance blew up the big lie that slaves were happy in bondage.
    — Adam Rothman, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2016
  • Feminists saw something like bondage in the dress straps that held the subject’s arms close to her body.
    — William Grimes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Swarms of nude dancers, male and female, caper up in bizarre sword-and-sorcery bondage gear.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
  • This story to me has always summed up the power of white supremacy: Choose a life of bondage or refuse and limp.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • What a solace then is reveille, what a solace your duties, that far milder form of bondage!
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
  • God had a purpose in plaguing Egypt: to persuade the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from bondage.
    — Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • The vision was of her as a military leader with, of course, some leather bondage pieces over it.
    — Gary Grimes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But the phrase came to mean more than simply a way of escaping feudal bondage.
    — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The years of our silence and captivity; years of protest, bondage and the walls behind which we are trapped.
    — Nasrin Sotoudeh, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
  • In freedom, as in bondage, Tilghman Davis lived on the periphery of wealth.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The king-size bed in the master bedroom is fitted with chrome rings on corner posts for bondage nights.
    — Joey Flechas, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Throwing off the shackles of tyranny often ends in new forms of bondage.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
  • His mother was born into bondage, too, just as the Civil War was about to bring the slave system down.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Pregnant Slick Woods dancing down the runway in bondage!
    — Zoë Weiner, Teen Vogue, 13 Sep. 2018
  • In 1998, the Netflix subscription service was born, and the world was freed from the bondage and discipline of late fees.
    — Stacey Grenrock Woods, Esquire, 1 Dec. 2005
  • Choosing a red leather Mugler bondage dress for a late night TV interview?
    — Booth Moore, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024

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