How to Use enslave in a Sentence

enslave

verb

• Some say the photo looks like a young black girl was being enslaved by her classmates.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2017
• Lane had been a nurse on the plantation where she was enslaved, and over the years, that has influenced the group’s makeup and mission.
  — Sari Botton, Longreads, 12 Oct. 2017
• Seems weird that Starfleet would openly endorse finding more tardigrades to enslave them so their ships can hop around the galaxy.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
• As soon as the Union Army came within reach, enslaved people freed themselves — by the tens of thousands.
  — Adam Sanchez, Teen Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
• Black people are probably tired of getting shot in the streets and being enslaved by the industrial prison complex.
  — Peter Helman, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
• The worry is that AGI will decide to enslave humanity or possibly wipe us out.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• In his imaginary world, leaders of an ignoble nation begin to enslave children, and this atrocity sets off a world war in which millions perish.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
• At the time, hundreds of thousands of people were enslaved across the South, amounting to about 40% of the Southern population.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
• The Adamses never owned enslaved people, though John Adams was, as Wood makes clear, much more a man of his time on racial matters than modern readers might infer.
  — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2017
• Sims’ test subjects were enslaved women who underwent experimental surgery without their consent—or anesthesia.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
• According to Elaine Weintraub of the Trail, enslaved Negroes lived in the maritime colony as far back as the 1700's.
  — Essence.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The captives were freed just five years after they were enslaved, thanks to the end of the Civil War.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Hughes said that about a half-dozen enslaved people lived in the house when it was built around 1850.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2018
• But the people enslaved by Thomas are not named in the document.
  — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• The modern concept of race has been used too long to enslave and exploit.
  — John Blake, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
• The Tampa Bay Times found nearly half of the people named were not enslaved.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• As the story goes, he was kidnapped and enslaved at age 16 and brought over to Ireland.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• The enslaved turned out tasty meals from the scraps and undesired cuts of meat tossed aside by slave masters.
  — Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• The names of the 356 people enslaved on the plantation are etched in granite slabs on what is dubbed the Wall of Honor.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• More than 6,000 women were enslaved, and men were lined up and shot outside their towns.
  — Cathy Otten, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
• Thousands were killed, others enslaved, and many who fled to the mountains were starved out.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• And sub-Saharan Africans weren’t the first people to be enslaved.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 5 June 2018
• Africans, both enslaved and free, some of whom had been among the first conquistadors.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• Over 20 enslaved Africans on the ship were sold, and with that, American slavery was born.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 26 Aug. 2019
• The populations in the North and South were almost equal, but one-third of those living in the South were enslaved.
  — Doug Melville, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• The Seder is embedded in a sense of being enslaved and then being free.
  — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
• She was born free, but she was later enslaved by a colored man.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• The game footage takes place on Kashyyyk, a Wookie planet, where Wookies have been enslaved.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 8 June 2019
• But the long time frame doubtless made that cold comfort to the people enslaved at Mount Vernon.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
• That evil is white European colonialism, which has come to the shores of Africa in the 1800s to enslave the Dahomey Kingdom.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 July 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024