How to Use slaver in a Sentence

slaver

noun
  • The slavers stripped him of his clothes and bound him hand and foot to the bottom of a boat.
    — Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
  • Those who stood up to the slavers on land and at sea often paid a heavy price for their bravery.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The slaver himself is the one to point out the contradiction in this.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Historians say the most notorious slavers used their wealth to fund the bank or staff it.
    — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And what of that July heat in 1761 when the small slaver docked in Boston?
    — Drea Brown Zócalo Public Square, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
  • The slaver’s captain preferred not to risk losing the payday his precious human cargo promised.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Out of options, Nina suddenly yells that Matthias is a slaver who has captured her.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Yes, Aida is an old-fashioned blockbuster, a tale of bloodthirsty slavers, desert vendettas, and love amid the pyramids.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Twenty-three states display at least one slaver, while nine states display two statues of slavers, according to Brockell.
    — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The insurrectionists–the slavers–had to be defeated on the battlefield first.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In Bristol, England, protesters toppled the statue of a slaver and rolled it into the sea.
    — National Geographic, 8 June 2020
  • But, even as the celebrations persisted, there was rising dissent in Bristol about whether the city should take a slaver as its mascot.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
  • Spurred on by the protest, Colston’s Girls School took down its own statue of the slaver and is considering changing its name.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2020
  • The power of these slaver classes was based on their ability to trade with the West, and they were often usurped by stronger mercenaries who took over their trade by force.
    — Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
  • In the eyes of slavers, the enslaved were property, like furniture, to be used and abused, not people, with parents and grandparents and siblings and cousins.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some communities met the raiders with stones, to the consternation of the slavers, who seemed unprepared to face such opposition.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Slave-making ants, for example, steal larvae from other nests and chemically imprint them to become workers serving the slavers’ queen.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • The Nimble’s deadly pursuit of the slaver in American waters, however, marked the beginning of the end of the line.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • At times, slavers bypassed tricks altogether, arriving under the cover of night to ambush a village and kidnap its inhabitants.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Faced with increasing attacks from slavers, other communities came together in defensive alliances.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • One extravagance includes a slave child’s reciting the Declaration of Independence just to incite a slaver’s anger.
    — Armond White, National Review, 12 May 2021
  • The proliferation of the American ship and flag — used by slavers of all nationalities — in the illicit commerce soon provoked alarm among diplomats.
    — Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
  • In many different regions, groups seeking sanctuary from raids by slavers created new settlements during the 17th and 18th centuries.
    — Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Not only was its initial capital drawn from slavery, historians say; its original vice president and director were also notorious slavers.
    — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Then-Mayor Todd Strange expressed concerns that one of the markers, which named slave traders, would offend the descendants of former slavers, before ultimately backing the project.
    — Donovan X. Ramsey, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The authorities removed the statue of Robert Milligan, another slaver, from London’s docklands.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2020
  • Charles Deslondes, a slave driver of Haitian descent, marshaled an insurrection against the slaver Manuel Andry, turning the tools of the plantation—the axe, the sugar cane knife—against his master.
    — Kandist Mallett, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Moments later, slavers pillaging the area capture him, and kill his mother, Fatima (powerful mezzo-soprano Cierra Byrd).
    — Adeline Sire, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • On annual memorial days throughout the century that followed, Bristol’s schoolchildren remembered Colston as a philanthropist not a slaver.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2020
  • The faceless head of a man bobbing in the water recalls the countless Africans who perished during the perilous journey due to disease, malnourishment, and abuse, whose bodies were thrown overboard by unscrupulous ship captains and slavers to schools of sharks.
    — James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026

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