Example sentences for: slaves

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

  • When American Independence was declared, some 40,000 Loyalists — New Englanders and Germans from Pennsylvania, but also some Indians and black African slaves — moved north to Canada.

  • The apology shows what a sensitive person you are, while you needn't alter your behavior at all, unless your slaves are doing something unkind to Galileo or that gimpy dog of his.

  • Hungry for power, Ross tangled with Kansas' senior senator, Samuel Pomeroy, and its congressman, Sidney Clarke, eschewing the era's weightier battles over rights for freed slaves and reconstructing the Union.

  • Bali’s contact with the Dutch was restricted to providing slaves — mainly Balinese who had broken the rajas’ laws or priests’ taboos — and soldiers for the army of the United Dutch East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC).

  • The men promise money to the brides' families, then often treat the wives as sex slaves, or worse.


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