How to Use slave in a Sentence

slave

1 of 2 noun

• He's a slave to fashion trends.
• Do it yourself! I'm not your slave!
• But… the slave boy doesn’t even get a name.
  — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
• There were slaves and there were captives in the West.
  — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
• On slave schedules, there were just tick marks on a page—there were no names.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• No one has ever called me a slave, ever.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
• So, did a former slave flip the concept?
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
• His goal was to start a slave uprising, but few slaves joined the fight.
  — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• So an 11-year-old mixed-race slave girl brought the system down.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• But most wrecks of slave ships remain uncovered on the coast.
  — Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026
• The cowboy was named after slaves who handled the cows.
  — Essence, 30 Dec. 2025
• There’s a poem that has runaway slave ads alongside text.
  — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
• Waiting is a big part of a slave's life, waiting and waiting to wait some more.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
• Baltimore was part slave and part free, as was all of Maryland.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• But the slave courts of the Carolinas were never silent.
  — Time, 17 Dec. 2025
• The coffins signifies death to the slave master or to the overseer.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
• Showing how Africans may have been packed into the bottom of slave ships.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 5 July 2023
• No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 22 May 2026
• No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him.
  — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
• No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
• No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
• Freed Black male slaves obtained that right before any woman did.
  — ABC News, 3 July 2026
• Britons never, never, never will be slaves.
  — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
• The question of whether new states would be slave or free threatened to fracture the nation.
  — Jim Rasenberger, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
• Many were freedmen or even slaves, which may account for their low social standing.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• In acting, someone has to play the slave owner, play these weird people in the world.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• Alex is then tasked with keeping her slaves alive, patiently feeding them one spoon at a time.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• And York, the Black man and slave of Clark, only comes up one time.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 24 June 2026
• But most clans don’t have the slave-to-warrior ratio to maintain great concrete.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022

slave

2 of 2 verb

• I slaved all morning to get the work done on time.
• She's been slaving away at her homework.
• Change your scenery and let someone else slave over the stove.
  — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• My mom was always slaving away in the kitchen with my grandma.
  — As Told To Jonathan Kauffman and Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2017
• Many are just a jumble of arms slaving away on a production line.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
• Many lemonade recipes call for boiling water, but who wants to do that in summer? Slaving over a hot stove is not required for this easy recipe.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
• There is no need to slave over the hot oven or bathe in flour to impress the people on your holiday gift list.
  — Indianapolis Star, 5 July 2018
• How that woman must have slaved, washing for five others, not counting herself.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• There was no hiding the squalid remnants of a slaving voyage, and Foster risked the death penalty if caught.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• Perhaps three out of every four slaving voyages are now documented in the database.
  — Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Perhaps three out of every four slaving voyages are now documented in the database.
  — Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• Freedom and democracy are more important than slaving ourselves away for money.
  — Vivienne Chow, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2019
• Through some maneuvering, Kleinman remained with his brother in the line of those destined to slave labor.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 5 May 2021
• Po’s journey begins while slaving away at his boring noodle job on the day the Dragon Warrior is to be chosen.
  — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Nov. 2025
• The biggest companies are now slaving away to bring his vision ever closer to reality.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2016
• Maybe entrepreneurship to you means slaving away behind a laptop, answering to clients, suppliers and team members.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The attachment comes with three blades for slicing, fine shredding, and course shredding, and with this tool in their kitchen, your recipient will never have to slave over a box grater again.
  — Camryn Rabideau, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
• Students in an eighth grade class in Provo were randomly assigned to be slaves and slave masters for a project about the Civil War.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• This payout was a massive 40% of the government's budget and required many bonds to slave owners to effectuate the law.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 1 July 2020
• Whatever the reason, come Thanksgiving, a whole nation of cooks sequester themselves in the kitchen to slave over a hot oven and multiple pans on the stove.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• In other words, the founding fathers were well aware of the economic advantage to slave owners of limiting the Atlantic slave trade.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Things are equally akilter in his family’s home, with his mother now sitting on the couch watching TV while his father slaves away in the kitchen.
  — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The Japanese treated their prisoners with extreme brutality as they were marched to prison camps and to slave labor in Japan.
  — Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
• The bill clearly stated that the purpose was to recognize the part slaves played in settling this steamy, wild land and to acknowledge the inhumanity of their state while doing so.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• For decades, North Korea has been accused of sending workers abroad and confiscating most of their wages, an arrangement that activists liken to slave labor.
  — Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang and Paul Mozur, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• By one account, more than a million Egyptian peasants were forced into the project and tens of thousands perished, contracting diseases like cholera in circumstances likened to slave labor.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
• These recipes beg to be made ahead, but if the idea of slaving over a hot Instant Pot all afternoon gives you any form of discomfort, pick just one and tell your picnic pals to pack the rest of the basket.
  — Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
• Black Americans, still toiling under chattel slavery, heard whispers about the revolt that led to slave rebellions in the United States.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
• After two years away on loan while Leeds were slaving away in the second tier, the winger has returned to find his old No 11 shirt in Brenden Aaronson’s possession.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
• As the industry navigates the complicated issue, children continue to slave in dangerous mines for pennies of what the industry makes for the sparkly cosmetics.
  — Lexy Lebsack, refinery29.com, 31 May 2020