Example sentences for: servant

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

  • Nominated for the Booker Prize in England, Desai's novel of a small-town family in India is deemed "splendid" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). The two parts of the title refer to the internal structure of the book, the first half following the life of the family's plain and somewhat dim older daughter, who after failing to marry is consigned to the life of a glorified house servant.

  • The New York Times points out that the events leading up to the House's vote next week began as "a civil sex harassment suit by an obscure Arkansas civil servant."

  • He has spent his life as an "international civil servant," a phrase that conjures an image of someone wasting millions of U.S. dollars pushing paper around the Third World (which is basically what he did).

  • But Fiennes is truly in his odd element as a Graham Greene hero in Neil Jordan's fluid adaptation of The End of the Affair . He plays Maurice Bendrix, a self-centered novelist who embarks on an opportunistic but increasingly incendiary romance with Sarah (Julianne Moore), the wife of a bland civil servant named Henry Miles (Stephen Rea).

  • Rather than attack the case the way it has purportedly attacked its competitors, the company has largely ignored it, instead using its rebuttal opportunities to proclaim itself a producer of wonderful products and a dogged servant of consumers.


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