How to Use slave labor in a Sentence

slave labor

noun
  • That was a radical claim to make in an ancient world built on slave labor.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The other child — a boy — ended up at a slave labor camp and survived.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Temu didn’t respond to inquiries about slave labor in its supply chain.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2024
  • But while there’s been some progress, global crises have pushed millions more into slave labor.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 23 May 2023
  • The Chagos were used to farm coconuts, also by slave labor.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • From there, most of the Company B survivors were shipped to Japan to serve as slave labor.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This is due to the cotton plant’s association with transatlantic slave labor.
    — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Naor was dispatched to perform slave labor in the network of Dachau’s 140 subcamps.
    — Massimo Calabresi/dachau, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Management is aloof, some legal questions are unresolved, and use of child and slave labor has also been questioned.
    — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The Northland counties were leaders in hemp and tobacco production as a result of slave labor.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the workers were members of the Nisenan and Miwok tribes whom Sutter forced into slave labor.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Churchill had warned that the Soviet Union’s practices of state trading and slave labor would drive competitors under.
    — Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Saw tells his followers he was forced into slave labor at an Imperial work camp on his home planet Onderon.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Milk chocolate used to be the default chocolate, the origin of the cacao — and the likelihood that it was harvested using child and slave labor — passed over in silence.
    — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In the eighteenth century, Europe sated its sweet tooth with sugar cane produced by slave labor in the Caribbean.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug. 2012
  • Enslaved people continued to work at Whitehall and profits made there from slave labor were used to fund scholarships for Yale students.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Stories like Igra’s are uncommon in part because the Nazis killed many Jewish children who weren’t old enough to provide slave labor.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Among the first shareholders of the university were tobacco farmers and plantation owners who relied on slave labor.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This win represents a measure of justice for those Uyghurs and other Turkic people who have been tortured and subjected to slave labor there.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Those that survive are packed into concentration camps — a chilling foreshadowing of the coming Nazi era — and forced into slave labor.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In a time when slave labor dominated much of the Amazon, the company had paid workers well and treated them with relative dignity.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Rowland’s works often reveal the mechanisms by which institutions continue to profit from slave labor.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 May 2026
  • Concealing pregnancies while being used as slave labor Families were ripped apart upon arrival at Auschwitz.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • At the Nuremberg Trials, he was found guilty of war crimes; his trial focused on his use of Russian slave labor at his businesses during the war.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Taylor amassed a large fortune from Cuba's sugar plantations, which used slave labor, according to Citi's research.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • But Western business is choosing not to invest for a myriad of reasons including China’s use of slave labor and the absence of the rule of law.
    — James Rogan, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Sugar Land, which was discovered in the mid-1800s, had a thriving sugar plantation that was built using slave labor.
    — Kareema Bee, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Relatedly, the green cane stalks signified an early Caribbean sugar industry run on slave labor.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Where slave labor once made bricks, and thousands lost their lives, the designer crafted a massive concrete monument, completed in 1969.
    — Michael Allen, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The carmaker touts its teams of monitors that travel to mining operations around the world, and has pledged to mount a camera at an African mine to prevent the use of underage or slave labor.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 24 July 2023

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