How to Use chain in a Sentence

chain

1 of 2 noun

• The new book chronicles the chain of events leading up to the crime.
• They own a chain of organic grocery stores.
• We'll need 25 feet of chain for the pulley.
• The hotel chain recently opened a new hotel in Hong Kong.
• So Edgar Wright told me all about the 14-year–old email chain with the Scott Pilgrim cast.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2024
• This is Auburn’s version of the turnover chain this season.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2023
• Tied to one end were thick metal chains linked to a set of handcuffs.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
• The bar seating is the chain's largest with 40 seats of all its locations.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
• For the first time since 2016, the restaurant chain's Volcano Menu returns to stores this week.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
• The metallic fringe tassel and gold chain prove that clear bags don’t have to be boring.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
• But now, the pizza chain has struck a deal with one of the world’s largest food delivery services.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 12 July 2023
• My patent leather stiletto Western calf boots with a boot chain.
  — Nyla Stanford, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
• It was then bought by the small, upstart chain called Haggen from the Pacific Northwest.
  — Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
• He was met with Barbell on a throne with locked chains surrounding it.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
• It’s been on the chain’s menu for 40 years and has become so popular that it’s now sold in grocery stores.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• Those are the national chains, but what about the options a little closer to home?
  — Jevensen, oregonlive, 31 May 2023
• The rapper sauntered on stage with an oversized chain and sang a bit of the bridge before hugging Williams.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 June 2023
• The crankset is the part of the bike that moves the chain as the rider pedals, enabling the bike to move forward, according to the biking website Bike Radar.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
• The chain’s foothold along New York’s highways should be secure for the foreseeable future, too, no matter the fate of the new bill.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Little Caesar’s, the third-largest pizza chain in the world, inked a delivery deal with Uber Eats in April.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
• The Spinneys supermarket chain helped pay for the stairs, the glass, the second-floor office, and the shelves, for example.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
• While the ice cream chain is known for their Blizzards, the creator argues this is certainly just as good.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• Eight years later, in Dec. 2020, the chain brought the sandwich back, kicking off the McRib’s multi-year journey to bid customers adieu.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• The chain has attracted more consumers in recent months.
  — Leslie Patton, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• Sev Laser is led by Dr. Ehsan Ali, who oversees the chain’s operations.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2024
• The drugstore chain now has four locations in the Valley, including three in Boise.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2024
• For years, big chains decorating their stores for Pride month felt like a given.
  — Alma Avalle, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2023
• That’s putting pressure on lower-income consumers, a vital base for the chain.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• The height, front chain buckles, and shiny exterior deliver a dressy spin that's ready for your evening plans.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2023
• Just 6% of Taco Bell’s sales come from breakfast, the chain previously disclosed.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023

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chain

2 of 2 verb

• She chained her bicycle to the post and went inside.
• There are dozens of black men chained in the hull of the ship.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• The next step was to chain-saw the trunks into 18-inch logs.
  — Amy E. Randall, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2021
• The barge, now with a bridge chained to it, pulled out and down the Seekonk River.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• It had been dumped, left chained to a post in the center of a nearby town.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• At some of the sites, skinny guard dogs were chained to trees or in small cages.
  — USA Today, 18 June 2023
• But be warned: The images of sweet dogs chained outside in the cold and heat may break your heart.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 May 2023
• Is all that enough to make a laptop lover like me chain herself to a desk?
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 18 May 2021
• At the parking lot, the mahouts chain the four elephants to the pavement.
  — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
• The goal is to make the supply chain more efficient and predictable.
  — Josh Dunham, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• At times, the children were chained to their beds or put in cages for breaking house rules.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
• The building’s entrance is now chained shut with a padlock.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• Don’t put it anywhere near a covered awning, a porch, a garage, chain it to a tree if there’s one left out in the yard.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2020
• It was chained to a tree with no food or water within reach.
  — cleveland, 14 Jan. 2020
• About halfway to the village, people are seen on the side of the road offering to chain your tires for $50 a car.
  — Amy Delaura, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2023
• DeJesus and Knight were chained together and shared a room on the top floor.
  — Elaine Aradillas, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• Most of us aren’t going to lay down in front of a bulldozer or chain ourselves to a tree.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
• The plot is simple: Two strangers wake up chained in a windowless room.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Mar. 2023
• After his nephew stepped out to chain the two vehicles, the snow plow began to slide on the ice.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
• At one city council meeting in 2018, activists chained themselves to chairs to protest the project.
  — Rob Copeland, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• The trainer explained to the informant that Asha was always chained in the barn because the walls of the structure were cracked.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• And the paddles give him a chance to chain together eye-catching punch-and-kick combos that seem right out of the MCU.
  — Kristine Thomason, Men's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the eighteen-nineties, one of the park’s first acting superintendents kept bears chained to the side of his house.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• For those used to chain hotels in major cities, the size of the bedroom and bathroom will be a welcome –and spacious — change of pace.
  — Brande Victorian, Essence, 5 Aug. 2022
• One photo showed a child holding a bear that was dressed in wrist and ankle restraints with a lock and chain around its neck.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
• It’s all because of supply constraints, giving the supply chain a chance to breathe and catch up.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021
• Someone should pull everyone off the water, chain them to chairs in front of laptops and force the group to read every word.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021
• Johnson appeared this morning in black and white striped jail clothes with his hands and ankles chained.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 Jan. 2020
• His idea: chain large metal plates to a rotating pole that would send them spinning.
  — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• And that, in turn, recalls the thick bike chain the rapper Treach, from Naughty by Nature, often wore around his neck with a padlock, back in the 1990s.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024