How to Use concubine in a Sentence

concubine

noun
  • Did putting his hand in the box have something to do with that? Jessica is a member of the Bene Gesserit who broke away from her sisterhood to be Leto’s concubine (their word, not mine).
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Or maybe the porcupine knows about the skunk and the concubine and just doesn’t care?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Duke Leto’s official concubine, a wife in all but title, and mother of his only son.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Griffin asked the woman to be his concubine, or second wife, the police document states.
    — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Her mother was the sixth concubine to a wealthy businessman who abandoned them and her younger brother when Wu was a child.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2018
  • Hypocrisy is the concubine of people seeking riches or power over others — or to excuse bullies.
    — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Her father, a former rebel commander, had eight wives and numerous concubines.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Henry, for his part, relishes Eve like a concubine while his wife writes poetry downstairs.
    — Pete Tosiello, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
  • Little girls were also purchased and used as household slaves until old enough to become prostitutes or concubines.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Men might take Makú women as concubines but would never consider marrying one.
    — Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
  • This large number likely resulted from his descendants taking many wives and concubines.
    — Laura Clark, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • The smuggler, played by Michael Pitt, soon becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron (Ashina).
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In Judges 19 a Levite and his concubine stop in their travels in Gibeah in the land of the tribe of Benjamin.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Another focused on the wicked King Noah who drank wine and flirted with concubines from beneath an elaborate hat.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The Walking Dead, which in the last three years has killed off almost every person of color and turned the rest into concubines and cuckolds?
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 15 Dec. 2017
  • His official concubine, a former nurse, was promoted to major-general this year.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • According to the account left by Sima Qian, the new emperor—the usurper—killed many of his father’s concubines.
    — National Geographic, 12 Oct. 2016
  • The young women entered Kalinago society as their captor’s concubine or his wife’s servant.
    — Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
  • Mbande, who openly doted on Kengela as his favourite concubine, was immediately smitten with his newest child.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Madly in love with the Slavic concubine, Suleiman had his favorite son murdered to ensure that one of Hurrem's sons would ascend the throne.
    — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
  • That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • Some of them were married (or given as concubines) to Inca nobles, others became priestesses, and some ended up as human sacrifices.
    — ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Until Jan upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • These were the same men, many whose statutes adorn the town squares, that reduced the Black mammy’s sons to ashes and their daughters to concubines under the system of Jim Crow.
    — Dr. Robert O. White Ii, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • So when the Arabian princess Hind (Hart) refuses to become Kisra’s concubine, the stage is set for an epic confrontation.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Royal gardens, peeling frescoes, and tiled mosaics are breathtaking in their beauty, but the zenith of any visit is a wander through the sultan’s harem, once home to hundreds of concubines and their eunuch guards.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
  • The story is about a concubine of Grenada’s royal court, Fatima, and her friend Hassan, the court’s cartographer.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 30 Dec. 2018
  • When her husband returns from the Trojan War, Clytemnestra murders him and his concubine in retaliation.
    — Erin Saxon, kansascity.com, 27 May 2017
  • That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti (Hayati Azis), suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023

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