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How to use the word Caged in a Sentence?

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Yet seven years and two presidents later, I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, holding that long overdue IOU along with the unenviable title of the longest held Iranian-American hostage in history. – Baquer Namazi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. – Stephen King	added by Normando 2 years ago
Nobody had any type of human emotion or sympathy for this dying man gasping for his last breaths, and then you detain him worse than a caged animal. Not only for Columbus, Ohio, I'm saying this for all the police forces across this land. Your hunting season is over. – Alvin Williams	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In a single-wide trailer in the living room youve got a kid caged, youve got eightsnakes and youve got the snakes feed butted up against the childs cage, eight snakes in the same room, then mice running everywhere. – Henry County	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
And, then, the old man preached about the daily indignities of the old south— insulting stereotypes and caricatures that portrayed us as buffoons, butlers, and beasts; lies about our morality and worth, some told by preachers who said we had no souls, that we wore the Curse of Ham; backbreaking toil, often forced by law, the fruit of our labor on another man’s plate; poverty that warped, crippled, and everywhere premature death; our voices silenced by poll taxes and literacy tests; schooling in raggedy shacks with tattered books because education would spoil us for work in the fields; cuffed, chained, and caged, for crimes both real and imagined; our soldiers killed in their uniforms, their medals stripped; our businesses, churches, schools, and homes burned to the ground when we progressed too much; our women and children raped; everywhere the barbarism of color discrimination followed us, enveloped us, and when all else failed, there were sadistic cowards with ropes and pyres to kill us, kill our bodies, to try and end us. But, we did not end. – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 3 years ago
I went to the window yesterday, she looked really good, really bored, and like a caged tiger, it was time to take her home. And man, it's nice to have her home. – Lori Spencer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A married man is a caged bird. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
We feel like we're caged right now. – Dana Lafrance	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Bullying is comparable to a scenario for a caged animal, the classroom is a place where you're with people you didn't choose to be with, and you can't escape them if something negative happens. – Dieter Wolke	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Maya Angelou cited this sentence frequently in media interviews and other forums and it provides a connection to her first memoir 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' the sentence was chosen to accompany her image on the stamp to reflect her passion for the written and spoken word. The sentence held great meaning for her and she is publicly identified with its popularity. – Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return – the omani shed	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I know why the caged bird sings. – Maya Angelou	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Yet seven years and two presidents later, I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, holding that long overdue IOU along with the unenviable title of the longest held Iranian-American hostage in history.

– Baquer Namazi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.

– Stephen King

added by Normando
2 years ago

Nobody had any type of human emotion or sympathy for this dying man gasping for his last breaths, and then you detain him worse than a caged animal. Not only for Columbus, Ohio, I'm saying this for all the police forces across this land. Your hunting season is over.

– Alvin Williams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In a single-wide trailer in the living room youve got a kid caged, youve got eightsnakes and youve got the snakes feed butted up against the childs cage, eight snakes in the same room, then mice running everywhere.

– Henry County

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

And, then, the old man preached about the daily indignities of the old south— insulting stereotypes and caricatures that portrayed us as buffoons, butlers, and beasts; lies about our morality and worth, some told by preachers who said we had no souls, that we wore the Curse of Ham; backbreaking toil, often forced by law, the fruit of our labor on another man’s plate; poverty that warped, crippled, and everywhere premature death; our voices silenced by poll taxes and literacy tests; schooling in raggedy shacks with tattered books because education would spoil us for work in the fields; cuffed, chained, and caged, for crimes both real and imagined; our soldiers killed in their uniforms, their medals stripped; our businesses, churches, schools, and homes burned to the ground when we progressed too much; our women and children raped; everywhere the barbarism of color discrimination followed us, enveloped us, and when all else failed, there were sadistic cowards with ropes and pyres to kill us, kill our bodies, to try and end us. But, we did not end.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I went to the window yesterday, she looked really good, really bored, and like a caged tiger, it was time to take her home. And man, it's nice to have her home.

– Lori Spencer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A married man is a caged bird.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

We feel like we're caged right now.

– Dana Lafrance

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Bullying is comparable to a scenario for a caged animal, the classroom is a place where you're with people you didn't choose to be with, and you can't escape them if something negative happens.

– Dieter Wolke

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Maya Angelou cited this sentence frequently in media interviews and other forums and it provides a connection to her first memoir 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' the sentence was chosen to accompany her image on the stamp to reflect her passion for the written and spoken word. The sentence held great meaning for her and she is publicly identified with its popularity.

– Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return

– the omani shed

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I know why the caged bird sings.

– Maya Angelou

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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