How to Use thrall in a Sentence

thrall

noun

• I'm not your thrall, so you'll have to pick up after yourself.
• The house’s staff are, of course, all in thrall to Mrs. Danvers.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• Maybe the young guns are in thrall to Federer, Djokovic and Nadal.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2021
• Christ is in thrall to a dodgy stranger who can see into the future.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2019
• The San Francisco scene was still in the thrall of acid rock, but the East Bay was more eclectic.
  — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• This is already obvious to some of us — those not in the thrall of gang green.
  — Chris Reed, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• But is that good enough to attract shoppers who are in the thrall of SUVs?
  — Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver, 3 June 2022
• Biden these days is not a candidate who is in the thrall of handlers.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2020
• But LaPierre just kept spending, held in thrall to the demands of his lieutenants.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 9 June 2022
• That night Jean was completely in thrall to her dreams, as if drugged on them.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• The company had moved on from Trello and was now in the thrall of something called Monday.com.
  — WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023
• So why not spend it in the civilizing thrall of great art?
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2019
• Or a whole chunk of Asia will fall back into thrall to the West's global rivals.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Venice, the unchanging city, seems in the thrall of energy that is brand new.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022
• Without that, kids are caught in the thrall of sports, which serves the industry but not its players.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The man, who cannot speak, has the media, the police and medical experts in his thrall.
  — Carol Memmott, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
• Federer and Nadal have held men’s tennis in thrall for close to two decades.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2022
• Octavian denounced Antony as a man in the thrall of a foreign queen and waged war on the couple.
  — National Geographic, 20 May 2019
• Polar bears have long held visual artists in their thrall.
  — Anne Collins Goodyear, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2021
• Since buying Chelsea in 2003, the Premier League has become more and more in thrall to owners like him.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
• The America of the show is, even more than our own, in thrall to superhero culture.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• Like the ancient mariner, Joe captured an audience and held it in his thrall.
  — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• Gauff has left fans at this tournament, and indeed across Britain and back home in the United States, in her thrall.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 5 July 2019
• Wiener is our guide to a realm whose denizens have been as in thrall to a dizzying sense of momentum as consumers have been.
  — Ismail Muhammad, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2020
• From Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, the nation was in thrall.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 July 2018
• In these circumstances, even newsrooms not in thrall to the hard-right cabal would be hard-pressed to strike the right tone, to see the big picture, to earn the consumer’s trust.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• They are being aided and abetted by those on both sides of the aisle who -- perhaps in thrall to wealthy donors -- are prepared to turn a blind eye.
  — Keith Magee, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• Alyssa, Robbie, and Theo are not Pinocchio come to life but firmly in thrall to Geppetto’s strings.
  — Gish Jen, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Now even the mighty entertainment industry is in their thrall.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• For her, suspending judgment is a creative act, inviting the novel’s last and most important thrall, in which imagination fills the gaps left by knowledge.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024