How to Use subjugate in a Sentence

subjugate

verb

• The emperor's armies subjugated the surrounding lands.
• Maram doesn’t seek to exploit or subjugate nature but to work with it and through it.
  — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• And to subjugate them and extort money from them (Quran 9:29).
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Maybe that has to do with the fact that women have been subjugated for so long, or that men can be gross in a way women rarely are.
  — Jessica Kantor, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2018
• When witchcraft was still a crime in Europe and America, the image of the witch was used to used to oppress and subjugate women.
  — Sarah Lyons, Teen Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• The point is to subjugate and humiliate under the guise of amusement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• The news right now is also full of stories about how women are subjugated or abused.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
• Bosh’s willingness to subjugate his ego for the greater good and move to center after the Heat lost to the Mavs kept him from posting even bigger numbers.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• Not many players of his talent level are quite as willing to subjugate their egos.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• The Power begins in a world in which women are subjugated, in which they are raped and ignored and belittled and live their lives in fear.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
• That gave white Southerners a free hand to re-subjugate their Black neighbors, whose names were stricken from the voter rolls and schools, and decent jobs were closed to them.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Tutu lives in a desert metropolis called the City of Lies, subjugated to a people called the Ajungo.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Using the astral chain, people have managed to subjugate chimeras and use the creatures to their benefit.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
• On July 12th PiS stepped up its effort to subjugate the legal system to politicians’ control with two new laws.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• The Kremlin must understand that its goal of subjugating Kyiv is not achievable—not now, and not ever.
  — Eric Ciaramella, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
• Second, after subjugated as slaves the North American slave owners, black and white, had a property right in the labor of the slaves.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 10 Apr. 2018
• Like them, he'd been cheated and mistreated by a white power structure designed to subjugate black men.
  — Jonathan Eig, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Here were Haitians asserting their culture in a country that subjugated them to their own for centuries.
  — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 2 Aug. 2024
• He’s simply raised questions—why should this slave trade merit recompense and not the Roman campaign to subjugate much of Europe and North Africa?
  — Time, 6 July 2023
• Ukrainians note that Putin’s war plan—to subjugate Ukraine and to seize as much of its territory as possible—is unchanged.
  — Jonathan Steele, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2024
• One read is that there’s no escaping the suffocation of a subjugating regime.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• Because of this, Killmonger goes to Wakanda and can only see its weapons and their ability to destroy and subjugate.
  — Zito Madu, GQ, 20 Feb. 2018
• To subjugate the island, Chiang killed and imprisoned tens of thousands over decades—a period known as the White Terror.
  — Ben Rhodes, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2022
• It’s time to stop local tyrants from massive government reach and subjugating us.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2020
• Proponents of that approach insist that the joy of reading must not be subjugated to the mechanics of reading.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The vast majority of those subjugated were women and girls.
  — Ann M. Simmons, latimes.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• The all-out invasion by Russia, meant to subjugate Ukraine and bring it into Moscow’s imperial orbit, was meant to take three days, yet the war still rages on with no end in sight.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
• George and Anthony will have to find a way to mesh with Westbrook, who has been criticized for his inability to subjugate his game to let his teammates shine.
  — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• As the war reached its peak, the US led a land reform program in South Vietnam meant to bolster support for democratic ideals — notions of land and nature subjugated as a weapon of war.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• In other parts of the world, many peoples have been subjugated by powerful states, repressed through violence, and denied their political rights.
  — Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024