Example sentences for: bondage

How can you use “bondage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It wasn't until 1956, when Kenneth Stampp published The Peculiar Institution , that the historical profession--and the textbooks that take their cues from it--seriously revised the picture of bondage.

  • What was the true character of bondage in the American South?

  • While obviously constrained by their bondage, blacks nonetheless forged a culture rich with religious observances, folk tales, family traditions, song, and so on.

  • Josephus attributes the argument to an Egyptian named Manetho who, in a counter-version to the Book of Exodus, asserted that the Hebrews weren't led out of Egyptian bondage by Moses.

  • "In a new twist on the controversial practice of 'redeeming' Sudanese slaves from bondage, Kuwait's education minister is proposing to buy up the whole inventory in order to provide every Kuwaiti high-school student with a personal bearer.


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