How to Use subservient in a Sentence

subservient

adjective

• She refused to take a subservient role in their marriage.
• There’s one that dominates and one that has to be subservient.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• For centuries, shame has been used to keep women in subservient roles.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• These kinds of pieces depict — and fetishise — Africans in subservient roles.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
• Their days are fully structured so they are used to being subservient.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• Sometimes the humble may be seen as meek, subservient or self-abasing.
  — Barret Michalec, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
• Why, Buren asked, should the artist accept this subservient role?
  — Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
• No motorist should be forced to choose between being subservient and being shot.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 23 May 2017
• The role of the musicians was more subservient—just doing their job, like good soldiers.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 8 June 2017
• The world has been transformed by the existence of subservient machines that can do anything a human can do and more.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
• More legislators used to think for themselves and not be so subservient to party dogma.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• The relevance of what is happening in front of them falls subservient to rival scorelines.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
• The lilt substitutes for a question, a can-I-help-you, which, in my opinion, would be too subservient.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
• The president heads the executive branch but is subservient to the supreme leader.
  — Ladane Nasseri, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2017
• Who doesn’t really seem to like any personalities that are as big as his, or any players who aren’t subservient.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The larger mysteries of the show are subservient to the arc of the central relationship.
  — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• Duong, skinny, tattooed and shirtless, slouches on the side of a bed in what appears a wary and subservient position.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Families were diminished, identities were lost, and a woman’s right to her body was subservient to the state.
  — Jeffrey Fleishmanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• Street vendors warn androids away for fear of scaring off customers, even though dozens of subservient androids wander every street.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
• And Japan’s robots tend to follow the subservient female gender stereotype.
  — Mark Paterson, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2024
• Even if that's true, Miller had to play his cards the right way and not get crosswise with Kush or be seen as subservient to Arizona.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 22 June 2019
• Without such a market, the Chinese people are subservient to the state and their range of choices limited.
  — James A. Dorn, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2017
• Lynch is in a subservient power-sharing arrangement with coach Kyle Shanahan.
  — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 12 Jan. 2026
• Diaries confirm that life is in the details, and in its passions, all of which Ford includes, all of which are inevitably subservient to time.
  — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
• And the ones that do exist were faceless in fields, or caricatured — displayed as subservient property.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 June 2026
• Staff are always on-call and responsive without being intrusive or subservient.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
• There seemed to be a collective sigh of relief—almost a joke—that the actual year was nowhere near the threat of a subservient dictatorship.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
• That means staying devoted to housework and taking care of the children — and being subservient to their working husbands.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Agriculture and labor leaders protested that the Fed was subservient to bankers, a charge that was echoed in the halls of Congress.
  — Christopher W. Shaw, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Male fantasies à la the movie Her abound, centered around a subservient love interest with no bodily or emotional needs of her own.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024