How to Use indenture in a Sentence

indenture

1 of 2 noun

• The Old World models were more like an indenture, where there was a term of labor to be paid, and then freedom would be granted.
  — Kelley Fanto Deetz, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
• And that is the way in which the European Union indentures British liberty and democracy.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
• Why should someone with no interest in college indenture himself for a year for the pay of a scholarship and a small stipend?
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• The trust indenture expressly forbade moving the Barnes art.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• People who are held at the Menagerie are forced to get a tattoo of a peacock feather, which Inej scrapes off the moment Kaz pays off Heleen to end her indenture, thereby freeing her.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• The exhibit also displays the indenture of the Native woman Alice Sachemus to the Otis family.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• That's what happened to the holder of Casor’s indenture, Anthony Johnson.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• In this new version, Kaz is personally paying off her indenture in installments, meaning that she’s technically still owned by Tante Heleen, the madam of the Menagerie.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• Of course, the same trust indenture that expressly forbids moving the Merion wall ensembles and the foundation’s desire to do so, announced in 2002, led to one of the epic legal battles in American art history.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• But there is also power in the complementary argument that Republicans have coopted the language of freedom to impose a form of indenture.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 20 July 2017
• Last year the 1860 Indian Museum, dedicated to indenture, opened in Durban.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Most of the airport authorities support an interpretation of airport bond trust indentures in which a change of ownership would require bondholder support, McNamara said.
  — Allison McNeely, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
• Since the financial crisis, private-equity firms in particular, have taken advantage of strong, high-yield markets to increasingly write in looser terms in bond indentures and credit agreements at their portfolio companies.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• The Old World models were more like an indenture, where there was a term of labor to be paid, and then freedom would be granted.
  — Kelley Fanto Deetz, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
• And that is the way in which the European Union indentures British liberty and democracy.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
• Why should someone with no interest in college indenture himself for a year for the pay of a scholarship and a small stipend?
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• The trust indenture expressly forbade moving the Barnes art.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• People who are held at the Menagerie are forced to get a tattoo of a peacock feather, which Inej scrapes off the moment Kaz pays off Heleen to end her indenture, thereby freeing her.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• The exhibit also displays the indenture of the Native woman Alice Sachemus to the Otis family.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• That's what happened to the holder of Casor’s indenture, Anthony Johnson.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• In this new version, Kaz is personally paying off her indenture in installments, meaning that she’s technically still owned by Tante Heleen, the madam of the Menagerie.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• Of course, the same trust indenture that expressly forbids moving the Merion wall ensembles and the foundation’s desire to do so, announced in 2002, led to one of the epic legal battles in American art history.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• But there is also power in the complementary argument that Republicans have coopted the language of freedom to impose a form of indenture.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 20 July 2017
• Last year the 1860 Indian Museum, dedicated to indenture, opened in Durban.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Most of the airport authorities support an interpretation of airport bond trust indentures in which a change of ownership would require bondholder support, McNamara said.
  — Allison McNeely, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
• Since the financial crisis, private-equity firms in particular, have taken advantage of strong, high-yield markets to increasingly write in looser terms in bond indentures and credit agreements at their portfolio companies.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018

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indenture

2 of 2 verb

• But Africans who were indentured were often captured and brought over against their will.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• But Africans who were indentured were often captured and brought over against their will.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• Even as potent a figure as Darlene Love was indentured to Phil Spector.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 June 2017
• He's indentured to a bunch of redneck fur trappers, scouring the ground for anything edible.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 11 Mar. 2020
• The museum describes how 150 or so settlers were a mix of Catholics, indentured servants and others seeking a fresh start.
  — Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2017
• Oil could change Guyana as radically as did sugar, which brought African slaves in the 18th century and indentured labourers from India in the 19th.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
• Though baseball’s reserve clause left that era’s players indentured to team owners, Mr. Bunning was never afraid to speak out.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 27 May 2017
• Along the way, they are held captive by a mad farmer who treats them as quasi family and indentured servants, visit homeless camps and meet train-hopping hobos.
  — Oline Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• Her grandparents were indentured servants who worked six days a week, 16-hours a day on sugar plantations.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 26 Oct. 2019
• And if there aren't enough American doctors, for instance, who want to work in some small town in Oklahoma, the solution is not to import foreign doctors and indenture them to work in a small town.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• For this reason, some commentators have likened the H-1B program to indentured servitude.
  — Noah Smith, The Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• The Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta centers around Frederic, a 21-year old man who has been indentured to pirates until his 21st birthday.
  — Sue Ellen Ross, Post-Tribune, 1 May 2017
• The clause should be read, Sumner held, as referring to apprentices, convicts, and indentured servants.
  — Timothy Sandefur, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• Across history, this was often in the context of colonialism, indentured servitude and slavery.
  — Nicole Creanza, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2018
• Very little is known about Wisher, due to the nature of her indentured service to Pickersgill, which some have noted is not uncommon for those who were indentured during that time.
  — Rikki Byrd, Teen Vogue, 4 July 2018
• Some had also been pushed into magazine sales crews, forced to work selling subscriptions door to door in a situation that verged on indentured servitude.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2017
• Doug Pawlik, jauntily attired in gym shorts, sweat socks and a nerdy tie, plays earnest Freddy, who is all set to win his freedom on his 21st birthday after having been mistakenly indentured as a boy to a band of amiable pirates.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Just as the Sarajevan zoo bear lived a kind of mirror life to the citizens held hostage nearby, Obreht’s indentured camel in colonized lands articulate all that is left unsaid by its human master.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2019
• And on a political level, this particular Freedom Day stirs up a volatile mixture of pride and debasement, hope and exasperation for black South Africans indentured on the farm.
  — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 6 June 2018
• But by the 18th century, the country’s master class had begun etching race into law while phasing out indentured servitude in favor of a more enduring labor solution.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• For Jamie, that means battle, solitude, indentured servitude and (eventually) freedom.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2017
• On their land, the colonists built plantations, fortified them, and brought in enslaved Africans and indentured Europeans to produce tobacco for the emerging world market and to defend the territory militarily.
  — Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• Income share agreements have long been criticized for being modern-day forms of indentured servitude and even described as predatory and discriminatory if taken to the extreme.
  — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 27 June 2019
• Buried in the Centennial State’s 1876 constitution is a provision that technically permits a person to be sentenced to slavery or indentured servitude if convicted of a crime.
  — Andrew O'Reilly, Fox News, 30 July 2018
• During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor’s children.
  — Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• Out of context, these are all traditionally seen as serviceable gestures that reminds many of the historical inequalities of labor that black women endured: slavery, indentured servitude, and so on.
  — Alisha Acquaye, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
• Some American Indians were also indentured, while others were enslaved.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• Some societies cause indentured workers to earn their freedom under impossible circumstances.
  — Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• But Africans who were indentured were often captured and brought over against their will.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• But Africans who were indentured were often captured and brought over against their will.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017

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