Example sentences for: servitude

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

  • Freedom of contract enables individuals to express their personhood, but it also facilitates relationships of oppression, including “slavery and involuntary servitude.”

  • Somewhat comically, he follows this call for relentless harassment and involuntary servitude with a proposal to "encourage more fathers to acknowledge paternity."

  • But as race slavery replaced servitude as the South's labor force, interracial sex threatened to blur the distinctions between white and black--and thus between free and slave.

  • If we think of the prohibition against slavery and involuntary servitude as an affirmation of autonomy, then the passive sentence of the Thirteenth Amendment could be rewritten, without change of content, in the form of the German Basic Law:

  • Her tolerance feeds his tantrums, her servitude his warped sense of self.


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