Slave

//sleɪv//

"Slave" in a Sentence (27 examples)

I refuse to be treated like a slave by you.

The section chief made me work like a slave.

The slave ran for his life.

The slave was anxious to alter his destiny.

Everyone was very surprised to discover that the slave girl was in reality a princess.

The car proved to be a slave, so I will not be a master.

As I will not be a slave, so I will not be a master.

Slave revolts interfered with the Middle Passage.

He treats me like his slave.

She is a slave of fashion.

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Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.

Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?

a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition

Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!

In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.

If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.

MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free

The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .

Despite these examples, the majority of enslaved Africans were not able to rely on rulers for help against slaving. Africans living in chiefdoms and villages ruled by allied African authorities were, however, able to use the legal system (Tribunal of Mukanos) in place in the regions under formal Portuguese control […]

With ready access to firearms through trade, the slaving Africans held a distinct upper-hand over the groups they preyed upon, which were often politically and socially weakened or destroyed by the trade.

Significant impacts resulted from slaving; there is evidence of how communities dealt with the threat and benefits of slaving. Africans provided most of the slaves to European slavers. Most slaves were created either to settle debts or raise funds, through warfare, or as punishment for a real or perceived crime.

I was slaving all day over a hot stove.

to slave a hard disk

Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]

Slaves or Slavì of Pomerania, with their confederates defeated near Lunden in Scania, […]

Moldavia and Wallachia, inhabited by Slaves nominally belonging to the Turkish empire, are in the actual military occupation of Russia. Servia, inhabited by the Slavic Serbs, is avowedly disloyal to the Porte, […]

It extended then far into Hungary, and the ancient limits of the land of these so-called Pannonic Slaves are the same which at present mark the extent of the language. […] A considerable number of Slaves in the Russian province of Silesia are said to speak the same languages slightly modified.

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