Dictionary Entry
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
In a Sentence
“He wore a gold chain around the neck.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “chains”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →5 Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors,
Arm'd in adamantine chains,
Lead me to the crystal mirrors,
Read full poem →Still in constraint your suffering sex remains,
Or bound in formal, or in real chains:
Whole years neglected, for some months adored,
Read full poem →From every face he wipes off every tear.
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound,
And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
Read full poem →Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains,
And mighty hearts are held in slender chains.
With hairy springes we the birds betray,
Read full poem →and plots of land—
Shallow skin of green and azure—chains of moun-
Read full poem →O Gods dethroned and deceased, cast forth, wiped out in a day!
From your wrath is the world released, redeemed from your chains, men
say.
Read full poem →O Gods dethroned and deceased, cast forth, wiped out in a day!
From your wrath is the world released, redeemed from your chains, men say.
New Gods are crowned in the city; their flowers have broken your rods;
Read full poem →_They handcuffed the body just for style,
And they hung him in chains for the volatile
Wind to scour him flesh from bones.
Read full poem →How will those solemn looks appear to mc,
And that seoerejace that speaks chains and shackles /'*