How to Use servitude in a Sentence

servitude

noun

• The story is about ritual servitude and is set in Ghana and New York.
  — Andrea King Collier, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2017
• Struggling to break free from the chains of servitude, Cheon-young combines charm and action.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 June 2023
• This business of being First Lady, is not, to her, a job of servitude.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Many of the native people of the island were forced into servitude.
  — CBS News, 9 Oct. 2017
• 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
• In the West, Clark found a version of servitude vastly different from the one he had been born into.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Mr Prigozhin’s servitude paid off, in the form of tenders for his companies to supply food for schools, hospitals, and the army.
  — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
• 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 after years of servitude, Mam writes, the brothel owner, Aunt Peuve, began to give her more freedom.
  — Simon Marks, Newsweek, 21 May 2014
• 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
• Much like the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, many states across the country have an exception for slavery or involuntary servitude, allowing it as punishment for a crime written into state law.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
• Prop 6, if passed, would amend the California Constitution to remove the provision that allows involuntary servitude in jails and prisons as a punishment for crime.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024