Example sentences for: concubines

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

  • They are like rows of whores or slaves, odalisques or concubines, servants in Astarte's temple, Satan's demons as myriad sirens.

  • Courtyards and elaborate pavilions, similar to those in the Forbidden City, cap underground burial chambers where the emperor, with his empress and concubines, is entombed.

  • Free women of color were included among the concubines of white aristocrats, their lives organized according to arcane social codes.

  • Men might rape black women or keep them as concubines, but to marry them would confer legal equality.

  • Nor have the 16 satellite vaults, where Yongle’s concubines are entombed.


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