How to use servant in a sentence

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• "I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.From the entry abide
• The princess was sleeping fast, and her servants were fast asleep too.From the entry fast
• She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.From the entry ease
• Such corruption is commonplace in a world of supine civil servants and underfunded ministries.From the entry supine
• At his beck and call, he had a small fleet of waiters and servants.From the entry beck and call
• All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.From the entry errand
• Similar to members of parliaments, members of Congress are civil servants.From the entry member of parliament
• Servants attend the king day and night.From the entry attend
• In aristocracies, servants are a class apart.From the entry apart
• The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner.From the entry command
• The servants went out on the roister after getting paid.From the entry roister
• He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.From the entry livery
• He it is who accepteth repentance from his servants, and forgiveth their sins and knoweth your actions. Sura XLII.From the entry forgiveth
• I am, as always, your everloving servant.From the entry everloving
• He waved a finger summoningly to the servants.From the entry summoningly
• He is working his servants hard.From the entry work
• When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.From the entry monotone
• And the civil servants rotate through the departments with similar speed.2023 June 28, Anthony Smith talks to Paul Clifton, “The industry has to go back to basics”, in RAIL, number 986, page 40. From the entry revolving door
• "I have many servants in my mountain fastness, and all the riches I could dream of."2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 116. From the entry fastness
• A dumpy portmaster and his servant peeked their heads out of the door, eyes wide.2017, John Hornor Jacobs, Infernal Machines, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry portmaster
• Ya Allah! the few native donkeyboys and servants exclaimed in terror and awe.2017, Lois Tilton, Noreen Doyle, “The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night”, in Paula Guran, editor, The Mammoth Book Of the Mummy. From the entry donkeyboy
• I'll have a bunch of droid servants and never have to get my hands dirty again.2014, S. E. Gilchrist, chapter 1, in When Stars Collide, Sydney, N.S.W.: Escape Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry droid
• An ox is killed for the servants when they begin to salt the winter meat at Martinmas.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
• The majority of these public servants are locals, which reflects 50 years of the Chinese Tibetanization policy.2014, Eric Meyer, Tibet, the Last Cry, Hong Kong: Blacksmith, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry Tibetanization
• Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023. From the entry free
• I am a public servant, and you have no authority over me."2013, Robert Vaughan, When Hell Came to Texas, →ISBN. From the entry the hell you say
• Among my uncle Roger's farm servants, Esau Fletcher and Peter Patch came to the parsonage house.2011, Hugh Nissenson, Pilgrim. From the entry patch
• Today, Fraser says of Tange: ‘He was one of the best public servants Australia has ever had’.2010, Malcolm Fraser, Margaret Simons, Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, page 192. From the entry public servant
• Did you imagine us bigguns your servants, mebbe, or some such downstruck types?' 'Nobody were downstruck there.2010, Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry downstrike
• Both Matthew and Luke have three sendings of servants, but the narratives are framed differently.2008, Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent. From the entry sending
• The servant that had raised him, an elderly pixie called Rolog, had died.2007, Jeremy Phillips, The Wizardon Star, page 165. From the entry pixie
• For most colonial wives, the houseboi, the domestic servant, was the first real contact with a native.2007, Anne Dickson-Waiko, “Colonial Enclaves and Domestic Spaces in British New Guinea”, in Kate Darian-Smith et al., editors, Britishness…. From the entry houseboi
• The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349. From the entry cellaret
• Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself.2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism. From the entry artsome
• She did not mind the servants gossiping behind the senyors’ backs but did not encourage them.2006, Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer, “The Servants in Summer”, in A Broken Mirror, London: Daunt Books, →ISBN, part 1…. From the entry senyor
• This also shows clearly that the nonconscious system is a servant of the consciously selected goals .2006, Antti Revonsuo, Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon, page 378. From the entry zombie system
• Now, in Tossim’s habitation there abode a female chattel servant cognominally known as Morgenthaunia.2005, Charles Manley Brown, Thou Shalt Not Take Thyself Too… Seriously: The Lighter Side of the Golden Years, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry cognominally

Meaning of servant

1. noun One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
2. noun One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
3. noun A person who dedicates themselves to God.

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Questions about servant in a sentence

How do you use servant in a sentence?

Servant is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.”

What is a short sentence with servant?

“He is working his servants hard.”

What does servant mean?

Servant means one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.