How to Use subservient in a Sentence

subservient

adjective

• She refused to take a subservient role in their marriage.
• These kinds of pieces depict — and fetishise — Africans in subservient roles.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
• There’s one that dominates and one that has to be subservient.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• No one’s right to speak should be subservient to a calendar.
  — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2017
• For centuries, shame has been used to keep women in subservient roles.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• Even if that's true, Miller had to play his cards the right way and not get crosswise with Kush or be seen as subservient to Arizona.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 22 June 2019
• The role of the musicians was more subservient—just doing their job, like good soldiers.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 8 June 2017
• Presidents in the 20th century were subservient to the PRI.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• The larger mysteries of the show are subservient to the arc of the central relationship.
  — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• Agriculture and labor leaders protested that the Fed was subservient to bankers, a charge that was echoed in the halls of Congress.
  — Christopher W. Shaw, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• And in this world, women are shown to be subservient to men, much to the puzzlement of Barbie and the pleased astonishment of Ken.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
• Think Alexa being subservient and accepting rudeness on the part of the user.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 11 May 2018
• The world has been transformed by the existence of subservient machines that can do anything a human can do and more.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
• She’d be damned if her career was going to be viewed as subservient to anyone’s, no matter how great.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• The risks: New sanctions will hurt Iran’s economy, which could cow Iran into a more subservient state.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 11 May 2018
• The president heads the executive branch but is subservient to the supreme leader.
  — Ladane Nasseri, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2017
• No motorist should be forced to choose between being subservient and being shot.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 23 May 2017
• Without such a market, the Chinese people are subservient to the state and their range of choices limited.
  — James A. Dorn, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2017
• That is true of the smaller countries surrounding China but also of the many countries that have long been subservient to the United States.
  — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Duong, skinny, tattooed and shirtless, slouches on the side of a bed in what appears a wary and subservient position.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Solo also mined the original film for plot ideas — the subservient status of droids is a good one! — but fell short in the execution.
  — Seth Masket, Vox, 1 June 2018
• Families were diminished, identities were lost, and a woman’s right to her body was subservient to the state.
  — Jeffrey Fleishmanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• And Japan’s robots tend to follow the subservient female gender stereotype.
  — Mark Paterson, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2024
• The landlocked rump state would be made subservient to Moscow, governed by a puppet regime that lacks any means of pushing back against Russian commands.
  — Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
• More legislators used to think for themselves and not be so subservient to party dogma.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• Torchy had no interest in being a doting, subservient wife.
  — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2019
• The president and his allies are trying to cow law enforcement officials, making them subservient to him rather than the rule of law.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
• With the adoption of the golf cart and the departure of Black workers from formerly subservient jobs in the middle of the 20th century, the number of Black caddies plummeted.
  — Craig Gill / Made By History, TIME, 13 June 2024
• Haidt is right: One way to better check these excesses is to reaffirm that truth-seeking is the purpose of the university and should not be made subservient to other goods.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 7 July 2017
• Kim the grandfather, in his time, was completely subservient to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
  — Sergey Radchenko, NPR, 19 June 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024