How to Use indenture in a Sentence

indenture

1 of 2 noun

• Why should someone with no interest in college indenture himself for a year for the pay of a scholarship and a small stipend?
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• Chatterton was accused of plagiarism and soon lost his indenture.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• The Old World models were more like an indenture, where there was a term of labor to be paid, and then freedom would be granted.
  — Kelley Fanto Deetz, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
• Robin is all but accused of being a runaway servant; Franklin had indeed broken his indenture to his older brother.
  — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
• And that is the way in which the European Union indentures British liberty and democracy.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
• Possibly the most glaring effect of Haskell’s absence lies in Inej’s indenture.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• Although most terms of indenture lasted for as long as seven years, de Sousa earned his freedom in 1638 by learning to be a fur trader and a sailor.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 June 2021
• That's what happened to the holder of Casor’s indenture, Anthony Johnson.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• But there is also power in the complementary argument that Republicans have coopted the language of freedom to impose a form of indenture.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 20 July 2017
• The exhibit also displays the indenture of the Native woman Alice Sachemus to the Otis family.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• People who are held at the Menagerie are forced to get a tattoo of a peacock feather, which Inej scrapes off the moment Kaz pays off Heleen to end her indenture, thereby freeing her.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• In this new version, Kaz is personally paying off her indenture in installments, meaning that she’s technically still owned by Tante Heleen, the madam of the Menagerie.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• Last year the 1860 Indian Museum, dedicated to indenture, opened in Durban.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Since the financial crisis, private-equity firms in particular, have taken advantage of strong, high-yield markets to increasingly write in looser terms in bond indentures and credit agreements at their portfolio companies.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Most of the airport authorities support an interpretation of airport bond trust indentures in which a change of ownership would require bondholder support, McNamara said.
  — Allison McNeely, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
• Of course, the same trust indenture that expressly forbids moving the Merion wall ensembles and the foundation’s desire to do so, announced in 2002, led to one of the epic legal battles in American art history.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018

indenture

2 of 2 verb

• But Africans who were indentured were often captured and brought over against their will.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• As the head chef, Posey worked 16-hour days and oversaw a kitchen staff of free and indentured white people.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
• There he is indentured to a series of masters, all demanding, one brutal.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• He's indentured to a bunch of redneck fur trappers, scouring the ground for anything edible.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 11 Mar. 2020
• None of this can happen while she’s literally indentured to Laurie.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
• Even as potent a figure as Darlene Love was indentured to Phil Spector.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 June 2017
• Here's why At one point he’s basically indentured to almost comically evil thieves, who force him to crawl through small spaces in the rubble to steal for them.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• Posey mastered these diverse ingredients while working 16-hour days, and managing a kitchen staff of free and indentured white people.
  — Ramin Ganeshram, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Some of them were technically considered indentured, while others were prisoners lent out by the colony’s government to private industry.
  — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Aug. 2025
• Some American Indians were also indentured, while others were enslaved.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• According to women who worked in the house, Iasmina Pencov racked up thousands of dollars in fines, effectively keeping her indentured.
  — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• And if there aren't enough American doctors, for instance, who want to work in some small town in Oklahoma, the solution is not to import foreign doctors and indenture them to work in a small town.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Families that manage to collect the ransom money frequently do so by selling or mortgaging their few possessions, indenturing family members, or worse.
  — Bruno Stagno-Ugarte, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2015
• Many inns and taverns — including Union Mills — relied on African Americans who were enslaved or indentured to prepare meals and maintain the household.
  — Samuel M. Riley, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2023
• My people are the unnamed, the native and the indentured, the characters who are trapped within the orbit of Michael’s hateful dictators, two black holes who think of others only as movable pieces in a numbers game of harrowing struggle.
  — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
• The Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta centers around Frederic, a 21-year old man who has been indentured to pirates until his 21st birthday.
  — Sue Ellen Ross, Post-Tribune, 1 May 2017
• The work reimagines the life of Dinah, a Black woman who was enslaved and later indentured at Stenton, centering her humanity, interior life, labor, and resilience.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• However, in contrast to the vision of free yeoman workers, historians have found that most laborers who arrived on the first ships were either indentured to individual masters or bound by some other kind of contract that limited their freedom.
  — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Aug. 2025
• And on a political level, this particular Freedom Day stirs up a volatile mixture of pride and debasement, hope and exasperation for black South Africans indentured on the farm.
  — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 6 June 2018
• Doug Pawlik, jauntily attired in gym shorts, sweat socks and a nerdy tie, plays earnest Freddy, who is all set to win his freedom on his 21st birthday after having been mistakenly indentured as a boy to a band of amiable pirates.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Within a few years of leaving Texas, Rauschenberg had upended everything the place had meant to him, smashing through the parochialism of small-town Southern life, where necks were broken in Jesus’ name, and families indentured or murdered.
  — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025