SERVITUDE in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for SERVITUDE, such as:

1. Such a worker bound in servitude to a landlord creditor.
2. He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.
3. At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for life.
4. We know, too, from history, what hurt a people or city suffers from servitude.
5. And the hardest of all hard servitudes is that wherein one commonwealth is subjected to another.

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servitude
 n.  forced labor imposed as a punishment for crime; lack of personal freedom
Classic Sentence:
1  But when that time comes, the people, although they recognize their servitude, will have none to whom they can turn for help.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
2  We know, too, from history, what hurt a people or city suffers from servitude.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
3  There is no difficulty, therefore, in determining whence that ancient greatness and this modern decay have arisen, since they can be traced to the free life formerly prevailing and to the servitude which prevails now.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
4  But the contrary of all this takes place in those countries which live in servitude, and the more oppressive their servitude, the more they fall short of the good which all desire.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
5  For it is no less arduous and dangerous to attempt to free a people disposed to live in servitude, than to enslave a people who desire to live free.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII.
6  Deep down below the slavery and servitude of the Negro people he saw their fatal weaknesses, which long years of mistreatment had emphasized.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
7  All that passion meant to her was servitude to inexplicable male madness, unshared by females, a painful and embarrassing process that led inevitably to the still more painful process of childbirth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  Today, however, it renewed the sense of servitude which the previous night's review of her cheque-book had produced.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  As he passed along, the trees and bushes, the huts of his servitude, the whole scene of his degradation, seemed to whirl by him as the landscape by the rushing ear.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
11  He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
12  The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
13  But I did not love my servitude: I wished, many a time, he had continued to neglect me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  And with the back of his hand he struck Cedric's cap from the head of the Jester, and throwing open his collar, discovered the fatal badge of servitude, the silver collar round his neck.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  And the hardest of all hard servitudes is that wherein one commonwealth is subjected to another.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
Example Sentence:
1  Such a worker bound in servitude to a landlord creditor.
2  Born a slave, Frederick Douglass resented his life of servitude and plotted to escape to the North.