How to Use subjugate in a Sentence

subjugate

verb

• The emperor's armies subjugated the surrounding lands.
• Maram doesn’t seek to exploit or subjugate nature but to work with it and through it.
  — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• The news right now is also full of stories about how women are subjugated or abused.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
• Not many players of his talent level are quite as willing to subjugate their egos.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• The need to subjugate or put you in a beta role becomes overwhelming.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
• Maybe that has to do with the fact that women have been subjugated for so long, or that men can be gross in a way women rarely are.
  — Jessica Kantor, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2018
• The point is to subjugate and humiliate under the guise of amusement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• The whole point is to humiliate weaker men – and to subjugate women.
  — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
• Like them, he'd been cheated and mistreated by a white power structure designed to subjugate black men.
  — Jonathan Eig, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Once again, Ukraine will be forced to subjugate itself in the name of global stability and peace.
  — John Shelton, National Review, 28 Feb. 2025
• One read is that there’s no escaping the suffocation of a subjugating regime.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• After a monthlong blitz, Poland was subjugated and the war was well underway.
  — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2021
• Using the astral chain, people have managed to subjugate chimeras and use the creatures to their benefit.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
• The book depicts a world in which fertility rates have fallen and women are subjugated.
  — Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Here were Haitians asserting their culture in a country that subjugated them to their own for centuries.
  — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 2 Aug. 2024
• Russia launched an all-out attack on Ukraine, for the purpose of ruining and subjugating it.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Feb. 2025
• It’s subjugated to a larger sense of what’s called the universal destination of all goods.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
• How could the woman who wrote so piercingly about women’s subjugation subjugate herself to not just one but two men?
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
• Everflame is set in a world where mortals live in poverty, subjugated by an elite race known as the Descended.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026
• Television has taught us that in the world of historical fiction, women are subjugated and men rule.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2017
• The Power begins in a world in which women are subjugated, in which they are raped and ignored and belittled and live their lives in fear.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
• Proponents of that approach insist that the joy of reading must not be subjugated to the mechanics of reading.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The Kremlin must understand that its goal of subjugating Kyiv is not achievable—not now, and not ever.
  — Eric Ciaramella, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
• When witchcraft was still a crime in Europe and America, the image of the witch was used to used to oppress and subjugate women.
  — Sarah Lyons, Teen Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• Not forcing her to go means hurting the other girl, forcing her to go means teaching your daughter that her own comfort should be subjugated to make someone else happy.
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
• Ukrainians note that Putin’s war plan—to subjugate Ukraine and to seize as much of its territory as possible—is unchanged.
  — Jonathan Steele, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2024
• Likewise, meekness once meant not becoming weak, but subjugating power to reason – not letting anger take control.
  — Timothy J. Pawl, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026
• There were also new signs on Thursday that Afghan women would resist Taliban attempts to subjugate them.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• Bosh’s willingness to subjugate his ego for the greater good and move to center after the Heat lost to the Mavs kept him from posting even bigger numbers.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• Those who get to the AI pot of gold first will then become geo-political superpowers; we will be subjugated to their whims.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025