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• The man clings to his need to induratize as if it's indentured servitude.2018, Jody Kaye, Cavanaugh: A Kingsbrier Quintuplets Novel. From the entry induratize
• Perhaps the quintation of slats came from the hands of the indentured Hollander.1946, Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture, page 161. From the entry quintation
• Indentured service continued through the 18th and into the 19th century.1921, Paul H. Douglas, American Apprenticeship and Industrial Education, New York: Columbia University, Part 1, Chapter 2, pp. 36-37. From the entry free-willer
• Leaf felt degraded by that — hiring on, in effect, as an indentured underbreed — but what choice was there for him?1973, Terry Carr, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Silverberg, No Mind of Man: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, page 122. From the entry underbreed
• When apprentices and lately indentured servants began to “whip the cat,” the shoemakers among them went from house to house making and repairing shoes.1965, Richardson Little Wright, Hawkers and Walkers in Early America, page 100. From the entry whip the cat
• Manilal Doctor who with his brave and cultured wife has been rendering assistance to the poor indentured Indians of Fiji in a variety of ways.1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Freedom's Battle, Treatment of Indians Abroad. From the entry sedition
• Banastre Pryce Llyod recommended that indentured labourers should be classified into 'able bodied' and 'non-able bodied' and that the rate of wages should be fixed accordingly for each group.2022, Esme Cleall, Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015. From the entry non-able bodied
• The IRS won't tell you how to “unvolunteer” or how your consent was procured, because they want everyone to be indentured government slaves in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.2020, Family Guardian Fellowship, The Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302. From the entry unvolunteer
• Like the others, however, he owed the contractual time to his master, who could sell the indentured servant, along with any debts owed by the servant, to someone else.2015, Gwyn Campbell, Alessandro Stanziani, editors, Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry indentured servant
• The kindergarchy was alive and well in the Carlyle household, with Alice centre stage and Mum and Dad both fretting about being reduced to the role of indentured servants.2011, James Craig, London Calling, SohoConstable, →ISBN. From the entry kindergarchy
• When it seemed later that the cause of freedom would eventually triumph the proslavery element undertook to perpetuate slavery through a system of indentured servant labor.1918, Carter G. Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration. From the entry proslavery
• The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit.1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition. From the entry bondservant

Meaning of indentured

1. adjective Subject to an indenture.
2. noun A person who is subject to an indenture.

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How do you use indentured in a sentence?

Indentured is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory.”

What is a short sentence with indentured?

“Indentured service continued through the 18th and into the 19th century.”

What does indentured mean?

Indentured means subject to an indenture.