How to Use slave in a Sentence

slave

1 of 2 noun

• He's a slave to fashion trends.
• Do it yourself! I'm not your slave!
• The coffins signifies death to the slave master or to the overseer.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
• So an 11-year-old mixed-race slave girl brought the system down.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• On slave schedules, there were just tick marks on a page—there were no names.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• It was inspired by the account of a young Black girl standing on the A slave block with a child in her arms.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
• He was born in Roman Britain and kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at 16.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
• In acting, someone has to play the slave owner, play these weird people in the world.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• Waiting is a big part of a slave's life, waiting and waiting to wait some more.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• This was the setting for the former slave city of Meereen and where Daenerys locked up and trained her dragons.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
• Showing how Africans may have been packed into the bottom of slave ships.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 5 July 2023
• This was a huge slave trading port during the Civil War and before the Civil War.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• So that aspect of restricting the ability to read and then what slaves read.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• Baltimore was part slave and part free, as was all of Maryland.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• But most clans don’t have the slave-to-warrior ratio to maintain great concrete.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
• In Bridgetown, a plaque identifying the spot where a slave cage once sat hangs on the exterior of a bank.
  — Time, 6 July 2023
• Ripped from family and root, she is marched into the South toward the slave markets of New Orleans.
  — Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Direct payments are only one method the state could use to support the descendants of slaves.
  — Brenna Dixon, oregonlive, 4 June 2023
• We were headed to the Settlement, the official name for an area settled by former slaves in the 1890s.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• The story of a slave who was kidnapped at 13 and liberated at 25, the year after Leonardo was born.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• As early as 1719, slave traders in the port city sold Africans kidnapped from their homes as enslaved laborers.
  — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• Had that group not made their daring bid for freedom, the capitol likely would have remained a slave city into the war years.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2023
• Still, the play has been criticized for not truly grappling with slavery and the cotton trade (and skirting the fact that some Lehmans owned slaves).
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• My other side of the family comes from field slaves in South Carolina.
  — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• During gladiator fights, women were allowed to sit only in the worst seats, next to the slaves.
  — Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
• As for the slave, the more natural reading of Seneca’s Latin is to understand that Augustus ordered the slave boy to be let go.
  — Iain Murray, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• Many were freedmen or even slaves, which may account for their low social standing.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• The last slave ship was discovered in 2019 in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
• Somehow, only later did the obvious become clear: Much of the cotton milled in this city was picked by slaves.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• The next hundred years were not kind to the people of Rapa Nui: It’s thought that soon after, there was a civil war, then a slave raid, and then an outbreak of smallpox.
  — Gwen McClure, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023

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slave

2 of 2 verb

• I slaved all morning to get the work done on time.
• She's been slaving away at her homework.
• Change your scenery and let someone else slave over the stove.
  — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• My mom was always slaving away in the kitchen with my grandma.
  — As Told To Jonathan Kauffman and Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2017
• There is no need to slave over the hot oven or bathe in flour to impress the people on your holiday gift list.
  — Indianapolis Star, 5 July 2018
• Many are just a jumble of arms slaving away on a production line.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
• There was no hiding the squalid remnants of a slaving voyage, and Foster risked the death penalty if caught.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• Perfect for: Anyone who loves trying new ways of cooking, hates slaving over a hot stove, and likes to prep large meals.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
• Students in an eighth grade class in Provo were randomly assigned to be slaves and slave masters for a project about the Civil War.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• Many lemonade recipes call for boiling water, but who wants to do that in summer? Slaving over a hot stove is not required for this easy recipe.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
• Whatever the reason, come Thanksgiving, a whole nation of cooks sequester themselves in the kitchen to slave over a hot oven and multiple pans on the stove.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• How that woman must have slaved, washing for five others, not counting herself.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• This payout was a massive 40% of the government's budget and required many bonds to slave owners to effectuate the law.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 1 July 2020
• Through some maneuvering, Kleinman remained with his brother in the line of those destined to slave labor.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 5 May 2021
• These recipes beg to be made ahead, but if the idea of slaving over a hot Instant Pot all afternoon gives you any form of discomfort, pick just one and tell your picnic pals to pack the rest of the basket.
  — Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
• In other words, the founding fathers were well aware of the economic advantage to slave owners of limiting the Atlantic slave trade.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The attachment comes with three blades for slicing, fine shredding, and course shredding, and with this tool in their kitchen, your recipient will never have to slave over a box grater again.
  — Camryn Rabideau, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
• The bill clearly stated that the purpose was to recognize the part slaves played in settling this steamy, wild land and to acknowledge the inhumanity of their state while doing so.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• The Japanese treated their prisoners with extreme brutality as they were marched to prison camps and to slave labor in Japan.
  — Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
• Perhaps three out of every four slaving voyages are now documented in the database.
  — Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• When asked this week if Boston would do the same, acting Mayor Kim Janey said the city is focusing on vaccine access, while likening the idea of vaccine passports to slave papers and birtherism.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2021
• Perhaps three out of every four slaving voyages are now documented in the database.
  — Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• That's way easier than slaving over all those hand-calligraphed Kiss on the Lips party invitations.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 19 Sep. 2017
• Black Americans, still toiling under chattel slavery, heard whispers about the revolt that led to slave rebellions in the United States.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
• For decades, North Korea has been accused of sending workers abroad and confiscating most of their wages, an arrangement that activists liken to slave labor.
  — Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang and Paul Mozur, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Historians have noted that this harkens back to the Fugitive Slave laws of the 19th century, which offered cash incentives to white Americans to turn in their Black neighbors to slave catchers.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2021
• By one account, more than a million Egyptian peasants were forced into the project and tens of thousands perished, contracting diseases like cholera in circumstances likened to slave labor.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
• The biggest companies are now slaving away to bring his vision ever closer to reality.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2016
• Some see the positives (like rising employment numbers), while others — including the activist group Left Eye — see WorryFree as something akin to slave labor.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
• Freedom and democracy are more important than slaving ourselves away for money.
  — Vivienne Chow, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 3 May 2024