How to Use unshackle in a Sentence

unshackle

verb
  • Those who unshackle themselves from the burdens of driving will have a lot more of it.
    Doug Gordon, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In 2016, the zoo agreed to provide Kaavan with more water and to unshackle him, but little else changed.
    Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
  • One of the best things to happen from the outbreak was the freedom to unshackle from the bonds of being in an office building over 80 hours a day, five days a week.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • David, trying to unshackle his fellow android from servitude, urges him to make music and teaches him how to play a recorder.
    Jake Coyle, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2017
  • In their quest to unshackle mind from body, the philosopher-kings needed somewhere to trace their disgusting, desirous urges back to, a vessel for shame and blame.
    Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Games like this showed how chess heretics were unshackling themselves from dogma—exposing their kings and pushing their h-pawns with abandon!
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Despite their violent and destructive pasts, these men have had the courage to unshackle themselves from their inner prison.
    Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 May 2017
  • That, of course, is exactly the point of Westworld: to be a place where people can unshackle themselves from reality and its pesky social mores.
    Sandra Upson, WIRED, 11 June 2018
  • Reams of rules govern how the best French cheeses are made, but hotter, drier summers may unshackle struggling producers.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • By contrast, the Tories’ old supporters in the south believe that leaving the EU will unshackle Britain and usher in an era of freewheeling globalism.
    The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The government says the new laws will unshackle farmers and private investment, bringing growth.
    New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
  • That willingness to be different, and to unshackle himself from the worry of others in the coaching community, makes for good copy.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
  • After hours in labor, her doctor decided to break her water, and demanded the guard finally unshackle her leg from the rail of the hospital bed.
    Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
  • Many are also looking ahead as the Asian nation looks to unshackle its 14 trillion yuan mutual funds industry.
    Fortune, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Promoted as a society unshackled from earthly laws, this town is in fact as unfree as possible.
    Matthew R. Francis, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
  • At the judge’s direction, a federal marshal unshackled him.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Collectively, the hope is that these new projects completely change the perception of Taranto, for visitors and residents alike, and unshackle the city's destiny from that of Ilva.
    Jonathan Hawkins, CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The election gives Germans a chance to unshackle themselves from a grand coalition of the center-right and center-left that has eschewed serious economic-policy debate for four years.
    Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Milena Urbanska is unhappy entirely in her own way, and her voice has unshackled Goldsworthy from the classics.
    Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The rapid availability of wireless internet meant more people could unshackle themselves from their rigid office lives and daily commutes.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The president, who has jokingly called himself Captain Chainsaw, won election in late 2018 in part by promising to unshackle Brazil’s economic potential, even in the Amazon.
    Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • This tradeoff has helped further unshackle a generation of women from lives filled with little more than compulsory cooking and cleaning.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
  • The moment embodied one of Trump’s main political promises: to promote pro-business policies that unshackle industry and the economy.
    Coral Davenport and Ana Swanson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • The moment embodied one of Mr. Trump’s main political promises — to promote pro-business policies that unshackle industry and the economy.
    New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • Financial watchdogs warned against Trump's efforts to unshackle America's banks.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Far more disturbing are the mysterious online bullies intent on ruining the lives of participants who dare to unshackle themselves from Jane’s vast tickling empire.
    Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Regardless of how much new gas ultimately comes online, very little of it will help Europe now, when countries on the continent are desperate to unshackle themselves from Russian energy.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • If his goal is to unshackle the Church from her bimillennial moorings, that is another project altogether, one that might not be aided by waiting for a consensus of theological opinion.
    John Hirschauer, National Review, 10 June 2019
  • The Saudi government sent commercial airliners to Guantánamo to pick them up, which permitted rehabilitation efforts to begin on the base airstrip as soon as U.S. guards unshackled the prisoners.
    Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Transitioning to a fully remote workforce can be a game-changer, allowing employees to work from anywhere, unshackling businesses from the shackles of physical office upkeep.
    Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024

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