Example sentences for: bondage

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

  • Much later, during the progressive first quarter of this century, pierced ears for women became utterly unfashionable, a sign of Victorian bondage as abhorrent as whalebone corsets and the double marital bed.

  • "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.

  • A liberal may look at a boxwood bunny frozen in mid-hop and see only a plant in bondage.

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

  • 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.


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