How to Use manservant in a Sentence

manservant

noun
  • Each confuses the inspector with a different version of how the manservant broke his neck.
    — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The gate is guarded by an elderly manservant for whom the term faithful retainer might have been invented.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Its expansiveness starts to feel grotesque, and so do the combinations of coolness and glee with which this odd manservant runs through the shadowy, crushing facts.
    — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2010
  • Their skyscrapers, trains and robotic advances (as in a robot manservant named Lancelot who makes pancakes) shaped modern New York.
    — John Stephens, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • That was high praise indeed, for Darnes had accompanied Kirby Smith across the country and beyond as his enslaved manservant.
    — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The only person who knows Diego’s secret is Bernardo (Salvatore Ficarra), his mute manservant.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026
  • His unflappable manservant, Jeeves, by contrast, is a master of restraint who quietly rescues the hapless Wooster from innumerable scrapes of his own making.
    — Nicholas Frankel, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • He is also said to have been a water boy and manservant to an Anderson family member who was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War.
    — John Wrory Ficklin, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
  • John Smith saves the man who fell overboard; Ratcliffe is the government lackey in a suit who hunkers down in his cabin and only emerges once the danger has passed, clutching his pug while his manservant shields him with an umbrella.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2021
  • In his younger days he had been known to creep up on his first owner, the colleague’s future husband, and drop on him suddenly from above, like a feline version of Cato, Inspector Clouseau’s manservant.
    — Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
  • The dialogue is witty and the characters are memorable, particularly Boris Karloff as hulking manservant Morgan.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That film crackled with undertones of class, sexuality and politics, with Dirk Bogarde playing the sociopathic manservant to acclaim.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • The elderly Carr doffs his bathrobe to become his younger self to participate in his encounters with the others, who also include his manservant, Bennett (Patrick Kerr), who harbors revolutionary sympathies.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018

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