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Example sentences for "handcuffed"

Lexicographically close words:
handbreadth; handcar; handcart; handclasp; handcuff; handcuffs; hande; handed; handedly; handedness
  1. The well-disposed took courage and in a little while had two more on deck, where I handcuffed them fast in different places.

  2. I had noticed a prisoner handcuffed fast to a post in the cabin, but had paid no attention to him until some loud talking in his neighborhood led me to it.

  3. He was a coward after all and went on deck as meek as you please, where I handcuffed him to the rigging and went back after more.

  4. You'll be handcuffed to your bunk from here on out.

  5. Jonner emerged from the G-boat, following the handcuffed Serj.

  6. The slaves would be handcuffed to a chain, each chain would link 16 slaves.

  7. He had the slaves handcuffed to a large leg chain and forced on a flat boat.

  8. So the mate was handcuffed and the three of us were taken to the Charleston jail, where we remained for about six months.

  9. We were taken back to the ship and handcuffed until the day of sailing.

  10. I should have sung out like steam, only they'd handcuffed me wrong way round and tied a beastly cork arrangement in my mouth!

  11. The handcuffed man wriggled into a sitting posture.

  12. After the mirth had subsided Hasan Khan was ordered to be handcuffed and removed.

  13. He then told the Commissioner that if those constables and the Inspector who had ordered him to be handcuffed were dismissed, on the spot, from Government service, the lamps would be lighted without human assistance.

  14. So saying, he handcuffed the Shifty with such enthusiasm that the convert swore a horrible oath at him.

  15. Meantime the policeman had whistled, there was a conflux of bobbies, and the culprits were handcuffed and marched off to the Town Hall.

  16. Dick Sherman arrested Neil Howell and Chubby over there at the hunters’ camp and left them handcuffed and tied up in one of our tents.

  17. In less than an hour the Ann and Louise lay on level ground near the fire, two prisoners sat handcuffed together not far away, and the three revenue officers were enjoying a plentiful breakfast supplied by the lads.

  18. Anyway a fight there was up there undoubtedly, for Madden brought in not only the engineer but three other men, bound and handcuffed and struggling furiously, trying to strike and bite the crowd like mad dogs.

  19. The crowd perceived him with Madden and it believed him a prisoner even if not handcuffed and marched with a pistol at his head.

  20. Having handcuffed him, he ordered him to be taken before the special magistrate, Mr. W.

  21. This Jocken is the same wretch who wantonly handcuffed the apprentice, who went on to his estate by the direction of his master.

  22. The overseer of the estate finding an intruder on his property, had him handcuffed forthwith, notwithstanding his repeated declarations that his master had sent him.

  23. The mode of punishing infractions of the prison rules at the Stillwater penitentiary consists of standing the prisoner on the inside of a cell door; putting his hands through the bars, and handcuffed on the outside.

  24. He enters the administration building, and, as a rule, if he has the reputation of being a "slippery chap" is handcuffed to the sheriff or one of his deputies.

  25. Bill The Hollander and The Babysnatcher appeared under escort, handcuffed to each other.

  26. They were immediately re-handcuffed to the Polish delegation.

  27. The man to whom Craig was handcuffed was stunned, but Craig himself appears to have been unhurt.

  28. They arrived quite safely and started for here, Craig handcuffed to one of the Scotland Yard men on the back seat, and the other in front with the driver.

  29. When the prisoner was on board The Three States the dog was turned loose, and after moving aimlessly around, followed the crowd to where Miller sat handcuffed and there stopped.

  30. They were arrested, one by one, by officers of the law; they were handcuffed and chained together and by the officers of the law loaded in a wagon and deliberately driven into an ambush where a mob of lynchers awaited them.

  31. She says the day her father was sold there was a long line of slaves to be sold and after they were sold and a good price paid for each they were handcuffed and marched away to the South, her father was among the number.

  32. Also her father was sold at that place at an auction of slaves at a high price, handcuffed and taken south.

  33. Traders handcuffed their servants purchased, and took them by boat or horse-back down the river or over in Virginia and Carolina tobacco fields.

  34. He was hustled into a windowless room and handcuffed to a chair.

  35. As the agents escorted the handcuffed fugitive up a large escalator, the corporate world stared at the trio.

  36. They were handcuffed together, sitting in pairs on the main deck.

  37. For they were dirty, handcuffed together like that, unexercised, unwashed.

  38. The big junk with the staring eyes carried them off, the supine, listless prisoners, handcuffed together, foot-locked to an iron bar.

  39. Here am I, arrested in the public streets, marched handcuffed through the town upon a most monstrous charge, which has been brought against me without a shadow of evidence.

  40. Hitherto he had scarcely taken the matter seriously, but to be marched handcuffed through the streets of Lewes was an indignity which enraged him.

  41. A lively scuffle followed, but the lad was no match for the men, and in the end he found himself handcuffed and thrown into the hold beside Tom.

  42. Handcuffed as they were, Tom and Sam felt their way along through the dark hold until they reached their elder brother's side.

  43. The well-known money-lender found bound and handcuffed in an empty house!

  44. Yet I had the revolver, and he lay handcuffed and bound down!

  45. There are times when a handcuffed man is at a disadvantage in a furiously waged and uncertain struggle, but Corriston suffered no disadvantage.

  46. His hands were securely handcuffed and the sharp metal was biting into his flesh.

  47. Surprised completely, the fellow caved, and I ran him along to where the men were walking, handcuffed him, and sent him to the station in charge of two men, but not until after Shadow had gone through his pockets.

  48. The man was handcuffed and gagged, and had been repeatedly stabbed.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handcuffed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bound; hampered; ironbound; strapped; tethered; tied