How to Use servitude in a Sentence

servitude

noun
  • None of us are born wishing for servitude.
    — Erin Douglass, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2025
  • They were not allowed to leave and kept in virtual servitude.
    — Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe she’ll be betrayed and captured and thrust back into servitude or worse.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Jennie feared her father would force—or beat—her back into servitude.
    — Longreads, 4 Feb. 2022
  • But the future that stretches out before her is mired in dismal servitude.
    — Ron Charles, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Many of the native people of the island were forced into servitude.
    — CBS News, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Struggling to break free from the chains of servitude, Cheon-young combines charm and action.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 June 2023
  • Fields said in the past, her parents considered cooking for people to be a form a servitude.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The flight from servitude, even from an identity, involves spycraft, too.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This business of being First Lady, is not, to her, a job of servitude.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Cabet and Blanc both construed this phrase as a call for Christian servitude.
    — Luc Bovens, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Anna is scared the rest of her childhood will be spent in servitude to Grammy, but don’t worry!
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But office life also forced millions to snap to a universal grid, a high-tech echo of the clerk’s dry servitude.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Peña Lopez is also charged with document servitude.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The story is about ritual servitude and is set in Ghana and New York.
    — Andrea King Collier, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Willie Levi, whose life was for so long marked by virtual servitude, had 11 years of freedom at the end.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • But where a child’s parentage is known, the status of servitude passes down the generations.
    — The Economist, 27 Aug. 2019
  • To Simone, child servitude is an evil so plain even CNN can condemn it.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Wambach could see just how badly the women’s team had been treated—and decided her decades of silence and servitude to the sport were over.
    — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Captured and forced into servitude, Theon redeems himself late in the series.
    — Danny Horn, EW.com, 14 July 2024
  • But the character’s state of servitude is largely hidden in clumsy blocking.
    — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • David, trying to unshackle his fellow android from servitude, urges him to make music and teaches him how to play a recorder.
    — Jake Coyle, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2017
  • In the West, Clark found a version of servitude vastly different from the one he had been born into.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Many women left the punitive existence of domestic servitude and escaped to the booming city by the sea.
    — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2025
  • In the first game, the main character arrives at a space station looking for a fresh start and a definitive way out of servitude.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 7 June 2025
  • Magic isn’t feared so much as looked down upon; those born with power are cast off into lives of servitude in which they are branded with a tattoo across the cheek.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • Mr Prigozhin’s servitude paid off, in the form of tenders for his companies to supply food for schools, hospitals, and the army.
    — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
  • But perhaps the consequence was that some deeper servitude had been inflicted elsewhere.
    — Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Usually, their earnings help — but when such women are trapped in servitude, those gaps become all but impossible to fill.
    — Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Some speak of robot slaves, artificial servants, AI servitude, and the like.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022

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