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.
• How about a chain of skate parks?
  — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
• At Home is a chain of home decor stores.
  — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• At the time, the chain had 19 stores.
  — Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
• She is thrown to the ground, the chain ripped from her neck.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
• That’s the weakest link in the chain.
  — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
• Avoid dragging tow chains along the ground.
  — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2026
• The drive-thru salad chain still has eight area stores.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Sep. 2025
• Think the Labubu doll craze and the food and drinks chains.
  — Ken Moritsugu, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
• Lenters also ranked the chain highly among his picks.
  — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• The on-chain data is already there.
  — Sandy Peng, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• That's roughly half of the chain's customer base.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
• The chain is also cutting costs.
  — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
• Dog tags bearing the names of his three children hang from a chain around his neck.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
• Don’t bring backpacks or chain wallets.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2025
• Don’t bring backpacks or chain wallets.
  — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2026
• Don’t bring backpacks or chain wallets.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
• The Broncos mostly stayed ahead of the chains.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
• It’s been in the family so long and people know me by the chain.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
• All restaurants in the chain are closed on Sunday.
  — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
• My patent leather stiletto Western calf boots with a boot chain.
  — Nyla Stanford, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
• Coffee chains are racing to cash in on that demand.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
• An exact day of closure for the chain has not been announced.
  — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2026
• Because every single part of that chain did their job.
  — Charlie D'agata, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
• Disney Springs sports the most challenges in the chain.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2026
• The coffee chain is still very much a turnaround story.
  — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
• Every false hope and turnover chain felt crueler than the last.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026

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
• Arnold’s drugged and chained and made to appear on the show.
  — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
• Banks and Starbucks and chain fast food.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• At some of the sites, skinny guard dogs were chained to trees or in small cages.
  — USA Today, 18 June 2023
• That delayed agent chaining did the job.
  — PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
• It had been dumped, left chained to a post in the center of a nearby town.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Prikopil often made her clean half-naked and sometimes chained her to his bed at night.
  — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
• At times, the children were chained to their beds or put in cages for breaking house rules.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
• At times, the children were chained to their beds or put in cages for breaking house rules.
  — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
• At times, the children were chained to their beds or put in cages for breaking house rules.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
• Every now and then, there were bikes chained to the iron fences along the sidewalk and huge trash bins.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
• The pregnant dog was chained up and thrown outside to fend for herself in the process.
  — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
• Twenty-one sailors were chained, stripped and sold into slavery.
  — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
• The men were chained in three separate places—at their ankles, wrists, and waists.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• The number of wheels that need to be chained depends on the type of vehicle.
  — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2025
• Mitchell kept Elizabeth chained up.
  — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Jan. 2026
• The goal is to make the supply chain more efficient and predictable.
  — Josh Dunham, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• At the parking lot, the mahouts chain the four elephants to the pavement.
  — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
• 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
• With his ankles chained just a half-stride apart, his legs had become too atrophied.
  — Michael Ames, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• Prometheus was chained to a rock for stealing the fire of the gods and giving it to human beings.
  — Alan Lightman september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
• Her family said she was chained to her hospital bed.
  — Kristie Keleshian, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Several dogs were pictured chained to trees or metal stakes.
  — Julia Coin june 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2026
• Johnson appeared this morning in black and white striped jail clothes with his hands and ankles chained.
  — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 6 Jan. 2020
• How uncomfortable was it being chained to the wall?
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025
• Thomas said her two dogs are sometimes allowed to walk around the yard but are otherwise chained in the back.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
• He was chained and dragged behind a motorcycle.
  — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026
• Nobody was depriving you of food or water, or chaining you up.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026