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
• Finally released from servitude, Collum steals Alasdair’s armor and horse and embarks upon his dream of pledging himself to King Arthur.
  — Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• These bills aren’t some bizarre push to allow prisoners to refuse to do any chores but an effort to finally expunge the last vestiges of de jure involuntary servitude and slavery from our system.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024