Example sentences for: slaves

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

  • Between her introduction and her conclusion, each of the "empirical" chapters--on the shipbuilders, the Citadel cadets, the "gangstas," the Spur Posse, the Vietnam vets, the Promise Keepers, the football fans, the militiamen, the porno film stars, the fashion tyrants and their slaves, and Sylvester Stallone--can stand alone as testimony to a rich and unique life-world.

  • (1) Although precise figures must remain elusive, according to the best current estimates a total of 10 to 11 million living slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.

  • Everybody has Clinton's shock at seeing the size of the iron ball used to immobilize manacled slaves.

  • The media bemoaned the vulnerability of illegal immigrants (trapped by their fear that outsiders will discover they're illegal) and congratulated Mayor Rudy Giuliani for rescuing the New York slaves.

  • In the era of black power, New Left assertions that slaves made their own lives resonated loudly.


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