Example sentences for: slave

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

  • According to the Washington Post , critics faulted the CD-ROM for failing 1) to address the cultural impact of the African diaspora; 2) to provide a definitive list of the voyages; and 3) to mention the names of any of the millions of Africans transported to America on slave ships.

  • The books are Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, by the University of Maryland's Ira Berlin; Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry, by William and Mary's Philip D. Morgan; and The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity , by Boston University's Jill Lepore.

  • In the course of Darger's story--titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion --the sisters (the Vivian Girls) manage to escape from the men (the Glandelinians) time and time again, but countless less fortunate girl-slaves are spectacularly mutilated and slaughtered along the way.

  • 1 billion fund to compensate slave laborers.

  • At the end of the 12th century, the Turks arrived: Sultan Mohammed of Ghur and his Mameluke (slave) General Qutb-ud-din Aybak seized Ghazni in 1173 and invaded India.


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