How to Use chain in a Sentence
- The new book chronicles the chain of events leading up to the crime.
- The hotel chain recently opened a new hotel in Hong Kong.
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So Edgar Wright told me all about the 14-year–old email chain with the Scott Pilgrim cast.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2024
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This is Auburn’s version of the turnover chain this season.
—Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
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Tied to one end were thick metal chains linked to a set of handcuffs.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
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The bar seating is the chain's largest with 40 seats of all its locations.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
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For the first time since 2016, the restaurant chain's Volcano Menu returns to stores this week.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
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The metallic fringe tassel and gold chain prove that clear bags don’t have to be boring.
—Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
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But now, the pizza chain has struck a deal with one of the world’s largest food delivery services.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 12 July 2023
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My patent leather stiletto Western calf boots with a boot chain.
—Nyla Stanford, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
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It was then bought by the small, upstart chain called Haggen from the Pacific Northwest.
—Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
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He was met with Barbell on a throne with locked chains surrounding it.
—Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
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It’s been on the chain’s menu for 40 years and has become so popular that it’s now sold in grocery stores.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
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Those are the national chains, but what about the options a little closer to home?
—Jevensen, oregonlive, 31 May 2023
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The rapper sauntered on stage with an oversized chain and sang a bit of the bridge before hugging Williams.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 June 2023
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The crankset is the part of the bike that moves the chain as the rider pedals, enabling the bike to move forward, according to the biking website Bike Radar.
—Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
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The chain’s foothold along New York’s highways should be secure for the foreseeable future, too, no matter the fate of the new bill.
—Andrew Keh, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
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Little Caesar’s, the third-largest pizza chain in the world, inked a delivery deal with Uber Eats in April.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
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The Spinneys supermarket chain helped pay for the stairs, the glass, the second-floor office, and the shelves, for example.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
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While the ice cream chain is known for their Blizzards, the creator argues this is certainly just as good.
—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
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Eight years later, in Dec. 2020, the chain brought the sandwich back, kicking off the McRib’s multi-year journey to bid customers adieu.
—Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
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The chain has attracted more consumers in recent months.
—Leslie Patton, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
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Sev Laser is led by Dr. Ehsan Ali, who oversees the chain’s operations.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2024
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The drugstore chain now has four locations in the Valley, including three in Boise.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2024
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For years, big chains decorating their stores for Pride month felt like a given.
—Alma Avalle, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2023
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That’s putting pressure on lower-income consumers, a vital base for the chain.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
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The height, front chain buckles, and shiny exterior deliver a dressy spin that's ready for your evening plans.
—Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2023
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Just 6% of Taco Bell’s sales come from breakfast, the chain previously disclosed.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
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The thief, who was never identified, used bolt cutters to cut a large chain securing the chipper.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
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At the turn of this year, the French grocery chain took PepsiCo products off its shelves in response to inflation at a time when consumers’ incomes were squeezed.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 2024
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There are dozens of black men chained in the hull of the ship.
—Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2020
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The next step was to chain-saw the trunks into 18-inch logs.
—Amy E. Randall, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2021
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The barge, now with a bridge chained to it, pulled out and down the Seekonk River.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
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It had been dumped, left chained to a post in the center of a nearby town.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
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At some of the sites, skinny guard dogs were chained to trees or in small cages.
—USA Today, 18 June 2023
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But be warned: The images of sweet dogs chained outside in the cold and heat may break your heart.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 May 2023
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Is all that enough to make a laptop lover like me chain herself to a desk?
—Joanna Stern, WSJ, 18 May 2021
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At the parking lot, the mahouts chain the four elephants to the pavement.
—Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
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The goal is to make the supply chain more efficient and predictable.
—Josh Dunham, Forbes, 26 May 2022
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At times, the children were chained to their beds or put in cages for breaking house rules.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
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The building’s entrance is now chained shut with a padlock.
—Michael Laris, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
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Don’t put it anywhere near a covered awning, a porch, a garage, chain it to a tree if there’s one left out in the yard.
—Paul Best, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2020
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It was chained to a tree with no food or water within reach.
—cleveland, 14 Jan. 2020
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About halfway to the village, people are seen on the side of the road offering to chain your tires for $50 a car.
—Amy Delaura, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2023
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DeJesus and Knight were chained together and shared a room on the top floor.
—Elaine Aradillas, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
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Most of us aren’t going to lay down in front of a bulldozer or chain ourselves to a tree.
—Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
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The plot is simple: Two strangers wake up chained in a windowless room.
—Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Mar. 2023
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After his nephew stepped out to chain the two vehicles, the snow plow began to slide on the ice.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
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At one city council meeting in 2018, activists chained themselves to chairs to protest the project.
—Rob Copeland, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
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The trainer explained to the informant that Asha was always chained in the barn because the walls of the structure were cracked.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
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And the paddles give him a chance to chain together eye-catching punch-and-kick combos that seem right out of the MCU.
—Kristine Thomason, Men's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
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In the eighteen-nineties, one of the park’s first acting superintendents kept bears chained to the side of his house.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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For those used to chain hotels in major cities, the size of the bedroom and bathroom will be a welcome –and spacious — change of pace.
—Brande Victorian, Essence, 5 Aug. 2022
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One photo showed a child holding a bear that was dressed in wrist and ankle restraints with a lock and chain around its neck.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
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It’s all because of supply constraints, giving the supply chain a chance to breathe and catch up.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021
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Someone should pull everyone off the water, chain them to chairs in front of laptops and force the group to read every word.
—Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021
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Johnson appeared this morning in black and white striped jail clothes with his hands and ankles chained.
—Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 6 Jan. 2020
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His idea: chain large metal plates to a rotating pole that would send them spinning.
—New York Times, 28 Feb. 2022
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And that, in turn, recalls the thick bike chain the rapper Treach, from Naughty by Nature, often wore around his neck with a padlock, back in the 1990s.
—New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
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But the systems that fettered our ancestors chain us, too.
—Brooklyn White, Essence, 18 Nov. 2022
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