How to Use bondage in a Sentence

bondage

noun
  • Few are lucky enough to achieve release from long-term bondage.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
  • There will be the chains of bondage and the pointy hat of the Klan.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 22 July 2019
  • 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 court declared that this man was free and could not be held in bondage.
    — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • This will be a great day to get the hostages away from their bondage and their torture.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Lean out the window, golden hair; my heart is in bondage and my lute is on fire.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2015
  • Rufus Burgess mined gold in the river to buy his way out of bondage.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 16 May 2024
  • Slave resistance blew up the big lie that slaves were happy in bondage.
    — Adam Rothman, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2016
  • Where there was once bondage, there is now liberation.
    — Essence, 7 Jan. 2026
  • What a solace then is reveille, what a solace your duties, that far milder form of bondage!
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Swarms of nude dancers, male and female, caper up in bizarre sword-and-sorcery bondage gear.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
  • 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
  • Yet the interviews still provide a glimpse at the harshness of life in bondage.
    — Raphael E. Rogers, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Shibari is Japanese rope bondage.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
  • There are real chains of bondage here, and that’s because of the foundation.
    — The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Use rope, bondage tape, or even a scarf or tie to restrain a partner's hands before going down on them.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
  • The Bone and Arrow Make bonding meet bondage with this full-frontal pose.
    — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Lynch’s great-great-grandfather, a free black man, fell in love with a slave and reentered bondage to marry her.
    — Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, 20 Aug. 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
  • Senior staff taught various classes on clitoral stroking, oral sex, bondage, and more.
    — Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The promise of life free from bondage was quickly met by a fierce resistance to Black agency.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Freedom from the bondage of my pigtails, the hairstyle and heaviness of my childhood.
    — Michaela Angela Davis, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Where once there had been the rhetoric of sin and strife and freedom, of bondage and rebellion, there was a myth of charity for all.
    — Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Red foods are on the menu for Juneteenth, to commemorate our bondage and resilience.
    — Chelsea Sanders, refinery29.com, 15 June 2021
  • In freedom, as in bondage, Tilghman Davis lived on the periphery of wealth.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Asians, who traveled to Mexico on Spanish galleons, some by choice and some in bondage.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Even men got in on the glove love, with Jeremy Scott turning bondage latex into kinky gauntlets.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2018

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