How to Use enslave in a Sentence

enslave

verb
Definition of enslavenext
Synonyms for enslavenext
  • Historians don’t know how long he was enslaved or when he was freed.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • How did someone who’s enslaved cope with the situation?
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Rice’s salary was paid by profits generated by 14 people the church enslaved.
    — Jessica Goudeau, TIME, 11 July 2024
  • And, besides, other ancestors were themselves enslaved.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Beyoncé grew up in Texas, where country music has long mingled with styles from jazz to blues to hip-hop — and where, in fact, early cowboys were enslaved Black men.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Simon talks about trying to build a family while enslaved, Jesse simply wants to exercise his right to vote, and Rex brings up the traumas of their mutual childhood.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • In Massachusetts, the social studies standards mention slavery and enslaved people more than 60 times.
    — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • But the people enslaved by Thomas are not named in the document.
    — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The modern concept of race has been used too long to enslave and exploit.
    — John Blake, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
  • The Tampa Bay Times found nearly half of the people named were not enslaved.
    — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • As the story goes, he was kidnapped and enslaved at age 16 and brought over to Ireland.
    — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Thousands were killed, others enslaved, and many who fled to the mountains were starved out.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The Seder is embedded in a sense of being enslaved and then being free.
    — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
  • She was born free, but she was later enslaved by a colored man.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • But the long time frame doubtless made that cold comfort to the people enslaved at Mount Vernon.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
  • That evil is white European colonialism, which has come to the shores of Africa in the 1800s to enslave the Dahomey Kingdom.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 July 2022
  • She was enslaved at a young age and began working the field harvesting flax at age 13.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
  • State archeologists have been searching for the homes of those enslaved on the Thompson Farm for more than two years.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Scott, who had been enslaved in Missouri, resided for a time in the free state of Illinois and sued for his freedom on that basis.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The nurse Jule became the most visible person enslaved by the Grants during the Civil War.
    — John Reeves, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The focus of many stories about the formerly enslaved is what was taken from them.
    — John Blake, CNN, 18 June 2023
  • When the wind blows, our ancestors push us to march into battle against those who would enslave us. . . .
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
  • There were also deep dives into the history of the people who were enslaved.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • For the first three years, its ambition was to aid the formerly enslaved to become self-reliant.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Her warnings were lifted from the same text the network’s opinion hosts read from each evening: elites, control, enslave.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • First things first: There was no benefit to being enslaved.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Before long, the Seder arrives at the ten plagues, which God used to punish Pharaoh for continuing to enslave the Israelites.
    — Mark Gerson, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2021
  • From the 16th through the 19th centuries, the most brutally efficient way of getting the job done was to enslave Africans, transport them to the Caribbean, and work them to death.
    — Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to give rights to formerly enslaved Black people.
    — Ronnie Cohen | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The difference between Tapp’s holdings and those of the families that had enslaved him and Amy were enormous.
    — Nicholas P. Brown, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023

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