How to Use servant in a Sentence
servant
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Among these servants are ones who pass laws to make my life a bit safer or just.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
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If dogs are our servants, cats are our shadows.
—Rebecca Van Laer september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
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There are rulers and servants on both sides of the gatehouse.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Sep. 2017
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Some treat the cabin crew like servants.
—Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 9 Dec. 2025
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Good for house servants, cooks, and cigar smokers.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
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Her only servant leaves plates on the floor and shuts the door with his foot.
—Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 May 2018
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Well done good and faithful servant.
—Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Well done, good and faithful servant.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
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Girls go to parents who want a servant or a bride for an only son.
—Fu Ting, orlandosentinel.com, 15 July 2021
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Suárez was his best friend on the team and, in his eyes, a loyal servant to the club.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
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The servant uses all her might to hold down Holofernes on the bed.
—Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
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And multiple servants in white gloves to tend to the pugs.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 Jan. 2026
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Andrew was a humble servant who didn’t need or want his name in the news.
—Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
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Even the smallest homes have staff wings and servant quarters.
—Jill Sell, cleveland.com, 21 Oct. 2017
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One of the main characters in the saga is a servant named Leo.
—Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
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And in between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
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The other is Lispeth, the young servant who takes care of Marek.
—New York Times, 13 June 2022
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Or of the servant’s child who died of disease on the property.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
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The former servants’ quarters smelt of lilies.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
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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
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Some of them treat them kind of like servants, some of them are very respectful, and some of them make friends.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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There’s a servant’s staircase from the kitchen to the third floor, and one from the second to the third floor.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018
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An army of college servants swept river silt from the courtyards.
—Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
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And anyone else who, by bad luck or circumstance or both, ends up a servant of the gray world.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Well, the servants are the ones who did the grocery shopping, the dry cleaning, et cetera.
—Marc Malkin, Variety, 16 Dec. 2023
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It's told from the perspective of servants within the palace.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024
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The family and their servants, arrayed against the far wall, were gunned down by about a dozen men.
—Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 25 Apr. 2017
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Tolstoy did not mention the sainthood of the servants, though.
—Michael Joseph Gross, Vanities, 27 Apr. 2018
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In the early decades, over the summer break, some students were sent to work as servants in white homes.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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The first, to focus on, was related to the second—to wait on, as a servant.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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