Sentence examples for gagged from inspiring English sources

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The word "gagged" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe the act of being forced to stop speaking or communicating. For example: "The protestors were silenced when they were gagged by the police."

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gagged

verb

Past participle of gag

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The government gagged debate on Tuesday in the lower house on the two social security bills, which introduce 20 welfare measures, in a bid to push them through the new Senate next month.

He pointed out that while RTÉ and the Irish Times had been gagged, Murphy's comments were published verbatim by the Guardian and Irish website Broadsheet.ie and available on the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) website.

Second, the balance of powers: the NSA is overseen by a secret court and gagged legislators.

Atopia is only now free to make its claims, having been gagged by a restrictive non-disclosure agreement since 2007 that prevented all companies from promoting any work related to the Olympics.

Chicago magazine cited at least ten deaths that looked like murder but had been classified as something else, including one of a young woman whose body was found bound and gagged in an abandoned warehouse.After a slow start, the mayor is devoting more attention to crime.

YOU are taken prisoner in Afghanistan, bound and gagged, flown to the other side of the world and then imprisoned for months in solitary confinement punctuated by interrogations during which you have no legal advice.

When Mr O returned to his farmland, he claims that Ethiopian army soldiers arrested him and took him to a military camp where he alleges he was gagged and severely beaten for hours.

They gagged the press, banned dissent and turned the security services into their private militia.Enough is enoughRule by big men rather than by law has been a disaster for Africa, but it cannot last forever.

The options are said to range from a "high-risk" course of sending 10,000 more troops, to a "low-risk" approach requiring 40,000, or even 60,000 extra soldiers.Whatever the request, Mr Obama has gagged.

Whereupon certain members on the Ministerial side thought fit that they should be gagged; and persevered, with something very like stupidity, in refusing to permit the adjournment.

Invoking his constitutional role as "the protector of rights and freedom of all citizens", he refuses to be gagged.

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