Sentences with 'subservient'
Example sentences and phrases with the word subservient and other words derived from it.
• « There were never more than 8,000 Spartan soldiers, along with another 20,000 or so free non-citizens (inhabitants of cities near Sparta who were not considered to be landlords, but free but subservient subjects), overseeing a much larger population of landlords. »
• « As the ideas of the Enlightenment spread and the groups that made up the Third Estate of commoners became increasingly resentful of their subservient political position, a virtual powder keg was igniting beneath the political structure of Europe. The subsequent explosion began in France in 1789. »
• « In the new United States, the Revolution largely reinforced a racial identity based on skin colour. Whiteness, now a national identity, denoted freedom and was the key to power. Blackness, more than ever before, denoted subservient status. »
• « The ideal Southern lady conformed to her prescribed gender role, a role that was largely domestic and subservient. »