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 point is to subjugate and humiliate under the guise of amusement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• The news right now is also full of stories about how women are subjugated or abused.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
• 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
• Not many players of his talent level are quite as willing to subjugate their egos.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• 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 vast majority of those subjugated were women and girls.
  — Ann M. Simmons, latimes.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• One read is that there’s no escaping the suffocation of a subjugating regime.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• The book depicts a world in which fertility rates have fallen and women are subjugated.
  — Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• It’s time to stop local tyrants from massive government reach and subjugating us.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The labor program is part of a wider agenda to subjugate a historically restive people.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Television has taught us that in the world of historical fiction, women are subjugated and men rule.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2017
• 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 idea of new technologies taking over the world and subjugating humans has been floating around the cultural consciousness for at least the last couple hundred years.
  — Brian Kateman, Time, 24 July 2023
• 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
• Hero has been subjugated for so long that his self-identity is almost completely defined by what someone is willing to pay for him.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• Enright was accused of answering to a cabal of globalist elites to subjugate the population and trap it in its neighborhoods.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 July 2023
• Because of this, Killmonger goes to Wakanda and can only see its weapons and their ability to destroy and subjugate.
  — Zito Madu, GQ, 20 Feb. 2018
• At worst, it has been used as a dehumanizing slur to subjugate a race of people still fighting for rights and representation today.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2021
• Harriot saw that they could not be effortlessly subjugated.
  — Stephen Greenblatt, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• But as satisfying as watching this moment play out in media might feel for women who have been subjugated and abused, the consequences can be jarring.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 May 2018
• The effort failed, in part Ortiz said, because the state had already successfully subjugated blacks.
  — Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Tutu lives in a desert metropolis called the City of Lies, subjugated to a people called the Ajungo.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• That gave white Southerners a free hand to re-subjugate their Black neighbors, whose names were stricken from the voter rolls and schools, and decent jobs were closed to them.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• There were also new signs on Thursday that Afghan women would resist Taliban attempts to subjugate them.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• Or take Amazon, subjugating book publishing to its rule by controlling many parts of the distribution chain.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024