Chains - definition, pronunciation, transcription

...hucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the rock star...

The room was festooned with gay paper chains.

I am to be hanged in chains.

He was led away in chains.

Small, independent bookstores simply can't compete with the big national chains.

Small grocery stores are going out of business in the face of stiff competition from the large supermarket chains.

Supermarket chains have crowded out the smaller shops.

Large retail chains are usually only prepared to locate stores in areas of high population density.

The working class has nothing to lose but its chains. (=disadvantages, restrictions etc).

Mayors wear chains around their necks as badges of office.

The prisoner tugged at the chains

"naked" carbon chains