Example sentences for: servitude

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

  • The Thirteenth Amendment charges the federal government with the responsibility to make sure that neither “slavery” nor “involuntary servitude” shall come to exist in the United States.

  • Yet, it seems very ambitious to derive all of this from a black-letter prohibition against private arrangements of “slavery and involuntary servitude.”

  • 22 The second constitution presupposes trust in an aggressive government, a watchdog of transactions that might slide into the forbidden territory of “involuntary servitude.”

  • In another series, , she exhibited rotting fish decorated with beads and sequins, supposedly to "create a biting satire on women's servitude in a male-dominated culture," according to the exhibition catalog.

  • States’ rights, the holding of blacks in a form of servitude called segregation, withholding the franchise from women—all of these would remain central issues for at least another hundred years.


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