SLAVE in a Sentence
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236 example sentences for SLAVE, such as:
1. She treated her daughter like a slave.
2. Do business, but be not a slave to it.
3. The boy was caught and sold to be a galley slave.
4. We prefer to die a hero, rather than live a slave.
5. He will always be a slave who knows not how to earn and save.
2. Do business, but be not a slave to it.
3. The boy was caught and sold to be a galley slave.
4. We prefer to die a hero, rather than live a slave.
5. He will always be a slave who knows not how to earn and save.
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Meanings and Examples of SLAVE
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slave
n. a person who is owned by someone
v. work very hard, like a slave
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Gerald was disappointed, for he had wanted a son, but he nevertheless was pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter to serve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly, happily drunk himself.
2 Ellen set dozens of little black boys to this task, the first position of responsibility a male slave had at Tara.
3 She had never struck a slave in all her life, but now she slapped the black cheek with all the force in her tired arm.
4 Behind the ruins the row of whitewashed slave quarters stood silent and deserted under the overhanging trees.
5 She knew every slave had his own garden patch and as she reached the quarters, she hoped these little patches had been spared.
6 She had changed more than she knew and the shell of hardness which had begun to form about her heart when she lay in the slave garden at Twelve Oaks was slowly thickening.
7 And each warm day saw more and more cotton piling up in the empty slave quarters, the only storage place left on the plantation.
8 They kept the negroes stirred up with tales of cruelty perpetrated by the whites and, in a section long famed for the affectionate relations between slaves and slave owners, hate and suspicion began to grow.
9 Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
10 In slave days, these lowly blacks had been despised by the house negroes and yard negroes as creatures of small worth.
11 To the credit of the negroes, including the least intelligent of them, few were actuated by malice and those few had usually been "mean niggers" even in slave days.
12 Accustomed to the care of their mistresses when they were ill in slave days, they did not know how to nurse themselves or their sick.
13 In slave days, it was something they never tasted except at Christmas, when each one received a "drap" along with his gift.
14 And even now, with the Freedmen's Bureau promising all manner of wonders, they still stuck with their white folks and worked much harder than they ever worked in slave times.
15 She always felt uneasy driving past this dirty, sordid cluster of discarded army tents and slave cabins.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 He was a slave ten years ago and was ransomed later by an old rich woman.
2 He will always be a slave who knows not how to earn and save.
3 I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles.
4 Do business, but be not a slave to it.
5 Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave.
6 We prefer to die a hero, rather than live a slave.
7 Speak with contempt of none,form slave to king,the meanest bee,and will use,a sting.
8 He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool ;and he who dares not is a slave.
9 She treated her daughter like a slave.
10 I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
11 A slave, of course, in distinction from a free woman, is not permitted complaints.
12 The boy was caught and sold to be a galley slave.
13 Superstition was with me at that moment; but it was not yet her hour for complete victory: my blood was still warm; the mood of the revolted slave was still bracing me with its bitter vigour.
14 The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.