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How to use subjugation in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Subjugation means the act of subjugating. Example: “The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.”

Examples of subjugation by meaning

nounThe state of being subjugated; forced control by others.

  • The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page...

More sentences with subjugation

  • The downpression of native people is linked to the subjugation and exploitation of the Earth.1983, Winona LaDuke, “They Always Come Back”, in Beth Brant, editor, A Gathering of Spirits, page 54. From the entry downpression
  • This script is a manifestation of the Greek influence in Bactria, even after the Kushana subjugation of this area.2010, Clyde Winters, “Greek Influence on Sanskrit Language”, in Journal of Eurasian Studies, volume 2, number 3, archived from the…. From the entry eteo-
  • Their internal peace can be preserved only with spoils obtained by subjugation of other nations or by terror.1948 summer, Franz Alexander, “The Price of Peace”, in Child Study: A Quarterly Journal of Parent Education, New York, N.Y.: Child Study…. From the entry draconically
  • Proto-racism is also identified in Roman views of subject peoples, the idea of collective natural slavery was intertwined with patterns of conquest, subjugation and governance.2013, Ian Law, Racism and Ethnicity: Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions, →ISBN. From the entry proto-racism
  • Not surprisingly, this vision of “creoleness” was used by some white Saint-Dominguans to support slavery and the continued subjugation of free people of color.2010, Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry Saint-Dominguan
  • Although representations of abject white masculinity in Jackass are potentially valid critiques of working-class subjugation, they may also resubordinate the historically marginalized through erasure.2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume…. From the entry resubordinate
  • Flat on its back, neither Germanization nor any other nationalism, as a process of subjugation, or a propagandum of ideas, will be thought of.1915, L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap, “Germanization”, in Europe’s Handicap—Tribe and Class, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Benton, page 303. From the entry propagandum
  • By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior.2019, Amy Kenny, Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage, page 4. From the entry humoral
  • Postcolonial analyses of cultural production study counterdiscursive practices in cultures affected by the imperial enterprise, such as the legacy of subjugation and resistance of the black populations of the Americas.2003, Dorothy E. Mosby, Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature, page 27. From the entry counterdiscursive

Meaning of subjugation

  1. noun The act of subjugating.
  2. noun The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.

Full definition of subjugation

Questions about subjugation in a sentence

How do you use subjugation in a sentence?
Subjugation is used as a noun. For example: “The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.”
What is a short sentence with subjugation?
“The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.”
What does subjugation mean?
Subjugation means the act of subjugating.

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