Examples of subservience in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Women expressing emotion in a society where subservience was mandatory were diagnosed with 'hysteria'; Black people seeking freedom from slavery were said to be suffering from 'drapetomania'. — Dr Sanah Ahsan, refinery29.com, 6 June 2022 Kate’s final speech of seeming subservience feels so out of date. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022 Trump’s political appointments—assuming GOP control of the Senate and continued GOP subservience to Trump—would make his subpar first-term appointees look like a team of George Kennans in contrast. — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022 The event would be retold over the years as an archetypal narrative of male supremacy and barbarity and abject female subservience. — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022 Even when people of color are included in these stories, seldom is there any effort made to give them narratives that don’t revolve around oppression or subservience. — Meha Razdan, Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2022 And the uglier side of that archaic age — in particular, the acceptance of female subservience and ostracizing the oppressed — doesn’t go unaddressed. — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022 The two quickly turned to groveling and begging for Trump’s support, each trying to outdo the other in showing their subservience rather than their independence. — cleveland, 29 Dec. 2021 But their rule before she was born has become its own history lessons, now amplified as her classmates dread a return to subservience. — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021 See More

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