How to Use enslave in a Sentence

enslave

verb

• In some cases, those enslaved earned enough money to buy their freedom.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Africans, both enslaved and free, some of whom had been among the first conquistadors.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• However, that does not mean that her parents or grandparents were not enslaved.
  — The Root, 20 Apr. 2018
• White people enslaved black people on this land before the United States was even a country.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• The entrance includes replicas of the pens in which the enslaved were corralled and a display that recreates the feeling of waiting for one’s turn on an auction block.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2018
• For generations, enslaved Africans vigorously toiled in chains and at the end of a whip to build the wealth of the white families who owned them.
  — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 12 Apr. 2018
• The young girl frequently standing on a street corner or the anxious, reclusive housekeeper next door could possibly be enslaved against their will.
  — Marvin I. Schotland, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
• Nuclear weapons play into the vampire mastermind’s plot to enslave humanity.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• Many early gladiators were enslaved peoples and those who committed crimes, though that wasn't always the case, History.com reported.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2024
• The next slave owner recorded on the slave schedule was Samuel Day, and directly after him were those enslaved by Willie Whittington.
  — The Root, 30 Mar. 2018
• While Jews are no longer enslaved, there are other injustices that ought to be considered and reflected upon during Passover, Caplan said.
  — Howard Ludwig, Daily Southtown, 30 Mar. 2018
• The histories of families that were enslaved there are documented on the wonderful website Caddo Trees.
  — The Root, 16 Mar. 2018
• Some American Indians were also indentured, while others were enslaved.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 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
• 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
• Over 20 enslaved Africans on the ship were sold, and with that, American slavery was born.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 26 Aug. 2019
• 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
• There is no mystery as to why a black person would cast off the identity that kept him enslaved.
  — Emily Bernard, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• The species that once enslaved others now toils to pay for the care of its pets, which lounge on the sofa waiting to be taken to the grooming salon.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• The trains, audible in the background, run on rails that enslaved people built—only for enslavers to use those very tracks to ship Black people off like cargo, tearing families apart.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024