How to Use servant in a Sentence

servant

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  • This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, declares the Lord.
    — Lauren Wellbank, Woman's Day, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The servant uses all her might to hold down Holofernes on the bed.
    — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The other is Lispeth, the young servant who takes care of Marek.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2022
  • And when dinner was ready, a servant would sound the chimes.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 May 2022
  • Teri Roberts: God has blessed me with a servant’s heart.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Well, the servants are the ones who did the grocery shopping, the dry cleaning, et cetera.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Your spoon was likely a gift to a maid or house servant.
    — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Or of the servant’s child who died of disease on the property.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Remember, the leader of them all is the servant of them all.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Edwards had worked as a cook in the 1985 edition of the race, and she was treated like a servant or worse.
    — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The tallest candle in the menorah, called the shamash, or servant, is the one from which all of the other candles are lit.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • In 415, Athaulf was attacked by a resentful servant and stabbed in the groin; the wound soon proved to be lethal.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Five key rules to being a strategist, not a servant: 1.
    — Rosie Guest, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • It's told from the perspective of servants within the palace.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024
  • So the women who might have gone out to be a domestic servant, not so many of them did.
    — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Even the servants’ bathroom and a coal furnace remained in the basement.
    — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But in the movie, Rudolf’s affair with a servant is more subtly implied.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The phrase suggests that a spouse ought to be a foil, a point of contrast, neither a mirror nor a servant.
    — Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Here was God’s servant, our Queen, Charles’s mother and Philip’s wife, in that order.
    — Dr. Tessa Dunlop, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
  • And a tale-teller was a servant hired to put people to sleep by talking a load of rubbish to them.
    — Ali Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Only Holt’s third servant, an old and infirm man, lent a hand.
    — Eric Jay Dolin, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • Katie Karel has great comic timing and steals all her scenes as the ever-wise servant Dorine.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But in the last few decades, glia have shed their identity as passive servants.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But in the past few decades, glia have shed their identity as passive servants.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Miles never doesn’t sound like Miles, never again needs to kill time — time is Miles Davis’ servant.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
  • The thug comes across a servant and makes a big show of setting a rat trap before rushing off to search other rooms.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • Queen Elizabeth II—the Queen—was one of the great symbols of that age, though not a creator of it, a servant rather than a master.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Doo-hak, played by Jang Dong-yoon, is the son of a farmer whose family was once servants to the Choi family.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • According to the bottle’s label, a bishop on a trip to Rome sent his servant ahead to check out the wine in taverns on the route.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Prompted by a royal vision, a king and his servant carve themselves a queen.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 July 2024

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