How to Use servitude in a Sentence

servitude

noun

• Struggling to break free from the chains of servitude, Cheon-young combines charm and action.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 June 2023
• One of them is a woman: Black, naked to the waist, down on one knee, clearly in a condition of servitude.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Willie Levi, whose life was for so long marked by virtual servitude, had 11 years of freedom at the end.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Anna is scared the rest of her childhood will be spent in servitude to Grammy, but don’t worry!
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
• The talk-show host, actress and activist will portray a Georgia woman trapped in servitude in the 1800s.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 12 June 2020
• They were not allowed to leave and kept in virtual servitude.
  — Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• Cabet and Blanc both construed this phrase as a call for Christian servitude.
  — Luc Bovens, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2020
• Maybe she’ll be betrayed and captured and thrust back into servitude or worse.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• But office life also forced millions to snap to a universal grid, a high-tech echo of the clerk’s dry servitude.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• Fields said in the past, her parents considered cooking for people to be a form a servitude.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2020
• But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there’s a life outside the shadow of the Prince of Darkness.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there’s a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
• But the future that stretches out before her is mired in dismal servitude.
  — Ron Charles, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Since the 1940s, the rice boxes have featured a white-haired Black man, sometimes with a bow tie, an image critics say evokes servitude.
  — Alexandra Olson, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Wambach could see just how badly the women’s team had been treated—and decided her decades of silence and servitude to the sport were over.
  — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2019
• Since the 1940s, the rice boxes have featured a white-haired Black man, sometimes with a bow tie, an image that critics have said evokes servitude.
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
• One of the most common mistakes made every year is exchanging free will for servitude to ADP.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 4 July 2018
• Residents are asked to neatly stack debris in the servitude.
  — Michelle Hunter | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• But where a child’s parentage is known, the status of servitude passes down the generations.
  — The Economist, 27 Aug. 2019
• The amendment removes that language and adds that slavery and indentured servitude in any form are banned.
  — Aaron Morrison, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• Jennie feared her father would force—or beat—her back into servitude.
  — Longreads, 4 Feb. 2022
• His servitude to the GOP, however, might not be totally paying off this time.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021
• The flight from servitude, even from an identity, involves spycraft, too.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• First, Nightmare of the Wolf shows how a young Vesemir, fed up with a life of servitude to a lord, witnesses a Witcher in action for the first time and flees to follow in the warrior's footsteps.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Some speak of robot slaves, artificial servants, AI servitude, and the like.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Virgo is the sign that rules servitude, so sometimes the desire to be helpful can cause Virgos to put their own needs aside in the service of others, Watts explains.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
• As a 9-year-old, he was trafficked to the U.K. from Somaliland via a false passport and forced to work in domestic servitude for the Somali strangers who brought him there.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 13 July 2022
• This story tells of indentured servitude, mail-order brides and a scheming land grab.
  — Mike Hughes, Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2020
• Magic isn’t feared so much as looked down upon; those born with power are cast off into lives of servitude in which they are branded with a tattoo across the cheek.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• The novel, set in colonial East Africa, follows Yusuf, who is sold into indentured servitude at the age of twelve to pay off a family debt.
  — Nadifa Mohamed, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024