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adjective

pledged

bound by or as if by an oath

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pledged, each labelled with its topic.

  • Forty delegates arrived pledged to the governor, and party rules held them for two ballots regardless of the floor mood.

    Politics

  • A promise leaves you pledged even when circumstances change, which is why Kant treats it as duty rather than preference.

    Philosophy

  • The shares were already pledged as collateral, so the founder could not sell a single one during the offering.

    Finance

  • Each knight arrived pledged to his lord, and breaking that oath meant losing his land as well as his honor.

    History

  • The hero is pledged to the queen's service, so when she orders him into exile he goes without a word.

    Literature

  • The staff were pledged to secrecy about the merger, and nobody mentioned it even to family for six months.

    Business

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