How to Use in thrall in a Sentence

in thrall

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• The medium, in those days, was still mostly in thrall to mediocrity.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
• This new cohort was no longer in thrall to the old regimes’ social structures.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• That night Jean was completely in thrall to her dreams, as if drugged on them.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Mercury is closest to the sun and most in thrall to the star’s gravity.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
• Federer and Nadal have held men’s tennis in thrall for close to two decades.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2022
• The camera stops, as if in thrall to her, and lingers over a few frames, before the image comes to life again.
  — The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers are in thrall and all talent must pay homage.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
• Another was a lizard with a long tongue that licked off the faces of subway riders in thrall to their cellphones.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• America is in thrall to Fonzie, Bazooka Joe and Quaaludes.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 Feb. 2026
• Watching them all increasingly in thrall to their creation builds a thrill into the evening.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• But what about Netanyahu, a man in thrall to the hard right and not exactly known for rhetorical restraint?
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
• This elite is in thrall to the United States, not the European people.
  — Brett L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2023
• And yet…Friedkin, for all his virtuosic kinesthetic vérité zap, was very much in thrall to the theater.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• But such a project, ultimately, is still in thrall to that original paradigm.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• Less in thrall to Freud but equally interested in the subconscious.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2023
• His mind worked in peculiar ways, and his prose seemed always in thrall to stylistic principles that did not exist for anyone else.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
• Faye and Anna were in thrall to the Kingman, a faceless monster of the woods in a black cloak and light-colored crown.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
• Such a promise has kept Tesla diehard customers in thrall for years (even while their patience is bewildering to the rest of us).
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• In a music business perennially in thrall to the latest tech and trends, Moore is a rarity.
  — Bob Mehr, New York Times, 15 May 2025
• The Buffalo shooter was in thrall to the theory, as have been other racist and antisemitic killers.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 17 May 2022
• Zero shots in the first half did not enchant a Villa Park crowd that is normally in thrall to this Emery vintage.
  — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
• Daniel Kinahan, a keen amateur boxer, has always been in thrall to prizefighters.
  — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• For decades, Russian money, energy and military strength held Europe in thrall.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
• Louise, in thrall to Vernon’s therapeutic snake oil, has soon abandoned Joe, and this leaves him devastated.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2025
• But video games in a sense where the viewer instead has no control, entirely in thrall to Korine’s anti-audience vision.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
• Today, the Democratic Party is slightly less in thrall to the education myth.
  — Jennifer C. Berkshire, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• In a country in thrall to warm water, where geothermal heat fuels countless pools and lagoons, any new opening is greeted with avid curiosity.
  — Rick Jordan, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
• In his absence, Brazil seemed bereft, adrift, unable to conceive of how to win the game without its leading man, the player to whom the team, as much as the country, was in thrall.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• The girls deserve a gritty origin-story version of the tale about a fawn heir to the forest throne, traumatized by the murder of his mother and in thrall to his childhood friend.
  — Vulture, 15 June 2023
• As a result, voters are in thrall to individual candidates who lack guardrails that compel them to act in the best interest of the party — or the country.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2024