Example sentences for: slave

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

  • Those were the words in a New York Times headline when Thomas Gottschalk, G.M.'s general counsel, announced that the company would likely contribute to a fund to compensate the slave laborers who worked in its Opel division.

  • One linguistic quibble: the piece revives the old-fashioned term "white slave trade," which brings with it an unnecessary implication that slavery is a special insult to white women.

  • Flat-Head , for example, refers to several tribes (Catawba, Chinook, Choctaw, Waxshaw, et al.) that once practised head-flattening; and the Yellowknife , an Algonquian people living east of Great Slave Lake, Canada, were so named from their use of copper implements: pedestrian names, these, in which inventiveness played no part.

  • The paradigm of the exploitative, oppressive relationship in the American experience is, of course, slavery, and therefore in 1865, as the first task of the new constitutional order, we banned the very possibility of private relationships of slavery, established either by force or by consensual agreement between master and slave.

  • An investigation carried out by the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera revealed that in Jalandhar, Punjab, little girls aged 10 to 12 were engaged in what is virtually slave labor, sewing leather footballs printed with the legend "Guaranteed produced without child labor" for export to Italy, France, and Britain.


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