Example sentences for: concubines

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

  • There are several excellent places to stop and catch your breath on the way up, including a teahouse, a former concubines’ residence, and an emperor’s temporary living quarters.

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

  • Mao {who had many concubines): So your girls are very often made use of?

  • 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.


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