Sample sentences for SERVITUDE

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to be under another's control — especially subject to forced labor

an almost medieval system of servitude that each year turns thousands of young women from underdeveloped Asian countries into virtual slaves for prosperous Arab families
Time, 1995 -- http://www.time.com/time/international/1995/951023/justice.html (retrieved 02/18/10)

In the mid-1990s, amid a greater societal push for individual freedom, China reformed a punishing training system that had forced millions of children into athletic servitude just like the Soviet machine, which was its model.
Time, 2004 -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,678686,00.html (retrieved 02/18/10)
living in political servitude to their powerful neighbor
indentured servitude
sentenced to fifteen years of penal servitude
These people have not given me to eat and to drink, have not visited me in prison and nakedness, and here they have sent me to penal servitude.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
'Firenze has entered into servitude to humans,' said a grey centaur with a hard, deeply lined face.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I understood only that my father enjoyed my practicing the motions, that it was an exercise of my servitude to him, the posture he desired.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Without Astaroth, humans would not have to languish in fear and servitude while demons transformed the world into their own hellish fiefdoms.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
One more evening of servitude.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
And the sentence was 'Five years' Penal Servitude.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
But because they can pass for human, they live in servitude to their hollow brethren, acting as scouts and spies and procurers of flesh.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Midmorning of my second day of servitude, Olive joined us in the kitchen.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High.
George Orwell -- 1984
His days of servitude to the whims of his flesh were behind him.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Nor could Thorn or Shruikan, for they were both slaves to Galbatorix, and their forced servitude had twisted their minds.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
And we constantly find individuals, or even whole nations, that claim this 'natural right' when they rebel against anarchy, servitude, and oppression.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Slaves are people debased by servitude below the equal level of free people; the Constitution regards the slave as divested of 2/5 of the man.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Our servitude to particulars betrays us into a hundred foolish expectations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
The forge, seven years of servitude.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

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