Example sentences for: handmaiden

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

  • Europa sits innocently on the back of a tame bull while a handmaiden tends to her mistress's unruly hair.

  • A slave handmaiden to some savage queen."

  • The only common thread seemed to be, as the New York Times puts it, the view that the WTO is a "handmaiden of corporate interests whose rulings undermine health, labor and environmental protections around the world."

  • The protests forced the postponement of the opening ceremony as thousands of people castigated the WTO for being, in the words of the New York Times , "a handmaiden of corporate interests whose rulings undermine health, labor and environmental protections around the world."

  • Meanwhile, the NYT reports that Albright, positioned in front of a painting of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, seemed anxious to stress that her role was minimal, insisting she was neither a mediator nor a facilitator, but a "handmaiden" (her word).


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