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How to use enslave in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Enslave means to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall. Example: “The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.”

Examples of enslave by meaning

verbTo make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

  • The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.

More sentences with enslave

  • It's no doubt the case that the internet enslaves us.From the entry no doubt
  • From a society of a white elite ruling over a predominantly enslaved Black subaltern population, the Haitian Revolution generated a slaveless country that proceeded to suffer with socioeconomic divides.From the entry slaveless
  • As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory.2022, Mary Elise Antoine, Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850, Wisconsin Historical Society…. From the entry unfairly
  • Indigenous protest was tied up with the resistance of enslaved peoples and trekboers.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 82. From the entry trekboer
  • Thereafter the Romans will enslave the Persians in the fifth hebdomad of years.2018, Stephen J. Shoemaker, quoting Khosrow II, “Awaiting the End of the World in Early Byzantium: Shifting Imperial Fortunes and Firm…. From the entry hebdomad
  • Then like fifty years ago the Cardassians invaded Bajor and enslaved the people and basically holocausted them.2017 September, “Season Five [Bajoran]”, in Zachary Auburn, editor, A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation: An…. From the entry holocaust
  • “passing without passport” or “Slaves of the bourgeois class, daily and hourly enslaved”) .2013, Darko Suvin, In Leviathan's Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time, →ISBN. From the entry adnomination
  • Not all wanga contain the enslaved spirits of the dead, but they work best if they do.2008, Stephan Palmié, Africas of the Americas, page 364. From the entry wanga
  • Under Kaiserism the world could never be free, but enslaved to the will of an autocractic monarch.1916, The Carlisle Arrow, page 5. From the entry Kaiserism
  • Raised among druids, Brigid was the daughter of an enslaved woman and the Dagda, chief of the gods.2024 February 5, Katy Hessel, “Move over Saint Patrick: why the world should be celebrating beer-brewing Brigid”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Brigid
  • Afro-Trinidad and Tobagonians are descended from enslaved Africans brought to the country by various colonists, including the Spanish, French, and British.2019, Charity Butcher, The Handbook of Cross-Border Ethnic and Religious Affinities, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry Trinidad and Tobagonian
  • The American philosopher John Zerzan is considered the intellectual heavyweight for the anarcho-primitivist movement, whose adherents believe that technology enslaves us.2018 March 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?”, in The Guardian. From the entry anarcho-primitivist
  • Slavery was going on in America, enslaving the black people.2016, Ray Cashman, quoting Patrick James (“Packy Jim”) McGrath, “Person and Place, Life and Times”, in Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview…. From the entry bigly
  • For this enslaves a man, even one who is boldhearted, whenever he is aware of his mother's or father's wrong doings.2012, Stephen Esposito (Euripides), Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae: Four Plays, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry boldhearted
  • Despite these examples, the majority of enslaved Africans were not able to rely on rulers for help against slaving.2011, David Eltis, Keith Bradley, Paul Cartledge, The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804, Cambridge University…. From the entry slave
  • In the New World, European colonists initially enslaved Native Americans, decimating the indigenous populations to one-tenth of their original sizes.2005, Wilma A. Dunaway, “Put in Master’s Pocket”, in Appalachians and Race, page 116. From the entry decimate
  • The age-o-meter dates your particles all the way back to 25 B.A., twenty-five years before Aku enslaved the Earth.2001 August 10, Paul Rudish, Genndy Tartakovsky, “Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie – Part II: The Samurai Called Jack”, in Samurai Jack…. From the entry living fossil
  • On the contrary, it was quite upfront about its intention to enslave millions of üntermenschen to serve the "master race".2000 May 9, Jeff Sinclair, “Judge Moore”, in alt.politics.usa.constitution (Usenet), retrieved 25 May 2022. From the entry üntermensch
  • By the sword or by diplomacy, through terror or persuasion, Temüjin had subdued or enslaved a hundred peoples.1990, Michel Hoang, translated by Ingrid Cranfield, Genghis Khan, Saqi Books, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry Uighur
  • Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.1982, New King James Version, Hosea 4:11. From the entry harlotry
  • On the other hand, I must think of Korea and, particularly, of the three million enslaved Koreans in the North.1978, Richard Nixon, quoting Syngman Rhee, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127. From the entry leader
  • Then the rest of you may attempt it, and soon we shall free all those who are enslaved."1907, L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz. From the entry guess
  • As chocomania swept the globe, European aristocrats brought enslaved Africans to Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to work cacao plantations.2017, Megan Giller, Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: America's Craft Chocolate Revolution, page 208. From the entry chocomania
  • Composite monarchy offered Machiavelli a vision of polity that did not enslave its territory, as Florence, operating the dictates of empire, invariably did.2015, Alissa M. Ardito, Machiavelli and the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, page 195. From the entry composite monarchy
  • 'Doctorcraft', as Mrs Lowe called it, would, 'like priestcraft, enslave us all', and must be replaced by the cool common sense of the ordinary man.2014, Sarah Wise, Inconvenient People. From the entry doctorcraft
  • Coarse cloth, checks, garlick, osnaburg, dowlas, Russia linen, and plains were cheap linen and woolen fabrics for working men and women and the enslaved.2013, Kathleen A. Staples, Madelyn C. Shaw, Clothing Through American History: The British Colonial Era, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry garlick
  • He observes the contradiction in some laws in regard to the treatment of those enslaved, yet does not decry the antiliberty aspects of such enslavement.2013, Joe Feagin, Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression, page 102. From the entry antiliberty
  • On one side were the vile, shape-shifting Skrulls, who wanted to enslave us, prompting McCarthyesque witch hunts and a disbanding of the Avengers.2011, Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human…. From the entry McCarthyesque
  • You raise the beast they’ve forced you to deny for centuries, and annihilate the very devil they’ve sent to enslave us all.”2005, Mary Jo Putney, MaryJanice Davidson, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Patricia Rice, Susan Grant, Gena Showalter, PC Cast, Alesia Holliday…. From the entry beastkeeper
  • Failing that, enslaved humans will do.1991 July 3, Michael Barlow, “PURDITORY: Harridans [Harsoc]”, in aus.games.roleplay (Usenet). From the entry yakka
  • Here—only 20 miles across the South China Sea from the enslaved mainland—the Nationalist raiders prepare for their frequent forays into Red territory.1964 January, Sam Duke, “Free China's Savage Commando War Against Peiping”, in Man's Illustrated, volume 8, number 8, →OCLC, page 22…. From the entry Tungyin
  • A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines.1946, Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins, page 77. From the entry deadland
  • Howsoever, over their cloistering walls and into the map of the megacosm, the two professors continued to launch their cadres of spellbound familiars and enslaved disciples.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 255. From the entry megacosm
  • Millions were reduced to serflike conditions where a small white elite dominated different groups of black and white sharecroppers, indebted tenants and permanent debtors virtually enslaved through peonage.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 116. From the entry serflike
  • Yorùbá-speaking men and women, more than any other West African ethnic and linguistic group, were enslaved and exported to North America, Cuba, and Brazil in large numbers.2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C.; London…. From the entry Yorùbá
  • And yet he is all the time enslaved to custom and not to any juridico-moral reason or reality distinct from this custom and superior to it.1997, Jean Piaget, The Moral Judgement of the Child, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry juridico-moral
  • Ever since their creation the Daleks have been attempting to conquer and enslave as much of the universe as they could get their grubby little protuberances on.1989, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks. From the entry protuberance
  • Every workingman in your city, every toiler in your country, in every country, in the whole world, is exploited and enslaved the same as you are.1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 3, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC. From the entry toiler
  • From the frequency with which slaveowners and enslaved Africans mention and discuss sickness, injury and disease, we know that concern for medical conditions was a signal feature of the slaveocracy.2019 July 30, Katherine Bankole, Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry slaveowner

Meaning of enslave

  1. verb To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

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Questions about enslave in a sentence

How do you use enslave in a sentence?
Enslave is used as a verb. For example: “The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.”
What is a short sentence with enslave?
“Failing that, enslaved humans will do.”
What does enslave mean?
Enslave means to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

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