cuffed

past tense of cuff

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuffed
Verb
  • The elder Ciattarelli slapped his forward with his right hand as his son, dressed in camouflage fatigues, approached for a hug.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • One columnist with the New Pittsburgh Courier even slapped Whyte’s label on the United Nations, suggesting that countries, like individuals, had a primal aversion to yielding their sovereignty to the groupthink of world governance.
    David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In response, Delaware last March passed a law to make the state more alluring, to which Texas quickly counter-punched with an even friendlier law.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The woman punched the air with her umbrella.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • To honor the occasion, Reese bleached her hair and chopped it to her collarbone.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Noise of trees crackling and sap hissing, branches thumping down, timber being dragged and chopped.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • At one point, the seventh-grader was assaulted, leaving bruises.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 31 Oct. 2025
  • After she’s brutally assaulted on her wedding night by a powerful politician (Masaya Takahashi), Jeanne (Aiko Nagayama) makes a deal with the devil (Tatsuya Nakadai) that unlocks an extraordinary power in her — not only over men but over life and death.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With that, Kirk smacked a grounder to shortstop Mookie Betts who stepped on second base, throwing to Freeman at first for the final two outs.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The incidents were the latest to occur in the area since mid-September, when North Carolina’s east coast started being smacked by strong winds and surf waves.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The campaign touted 3 million doors knocked and 90,000 volunteers.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The Lancers remained patient, chipping away until taking a 17-16 lead after three straight OLP errors, including Prior and Charlotte Wickstrand colliding on a ball, which knocked Wickstrand out for the set.
    Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The 170-grain slug socked him right between the horns.
    Bob Cary, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This is a guy who swiped 32 bases a year ago and socked 28 homers two years ago.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That tension is swatted at in the film, but only perfunctorily.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Brent Bramnick, who is representing Niotis’ family, told Fox News Digital that the suspect allegedly swatted the family's home in Cranford, New Jersey, twice in September.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Cuffed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuffed. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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