Example sentences for: subservient

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

  • Problem: Milosevic may take the opportunity provided by the NATO bombing to depose Djukanovic and install a more subservient leader.

  • When Hera first appeared in mythology as Zeus' wife, she was also his co-sovereign, writes Graves, but as the millenniums marched on, she became subservient to him.

  • Sweeney is too often subservient to the White House and the Democratic National Committee.

  • Back home, wives who at first seem passive and subservient are formidably powerful mothers and homemakers, driving their children to scholastic success through “examination hell. ”

  • Counselors were wholly subservient.


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