noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
hold
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But the mistake that Holberg made was to allow himself to be held in thrall by the world of appearances.
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For a long moment all she could do was stare back at him, his dark fathomless eyes holding her in thrall .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the demon which had driven him to drink that night, after months of abstinence, had him in its thrall .
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He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.
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Here was the beginning of Canetti's slow escape from the thrall of Karl Kraus.
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Of the literati in their thrall , Budd Schulberg emerged as the writer who told you most about the bouts.
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Self-pity evaporates as she's drawn to playground attendant Billy, unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len.
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Something shallow, unearned, but capable of putting you in thrall .