How to Use servant in a Sentence

servant

noun

• This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, declares the Lord.
  — Lauren Wellbank, Woman's Day, 9 Mar. 2023
• The servant uses all her might to hold down Holofernes on the bed.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Well, the servants are the ones who did the grocery shopping, the dry cleaning, et cetera.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 16 Dec. 2023
• Your spoon was likely a gift to a maid or house servant.
  — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
• Or of the servant’s child who died of disease on the property.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
• Remember, the leader of them all is the servant of them all.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• Edwards had worked as a cook in the 1985 edition of the race, and she was treated like a servant or worse.
  — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
• The tallest candle in the menorah, called the shamash, or servant, is the one from which all of the other candles are lit.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• In 415, Athaulf was attacked by a resentful servant and stabbed in the groin; the wound soon proved to be lethal.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• Five key rules to being a strategist, not a servant: 1.
  — Rosie Guest, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• 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
• Even the servants’ bathroom and a coal furnace remained in the basement.
  — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• But in the movie, Rudolf’s affair with a servant is more subtly implied.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Here was God’s servant, our Queen, Charles’s mother and Philip’s wife, in that order.
  — Dr. Tessa Dunlop, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
• Katie Karel has great comic timing and steals all her scenes as the ever-wise servant Dorine.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
• But in the last few decades, glia have shed their identity as passive servants.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• But in the past few decades, glia have shed their identity as passive servants.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
• Miles never doesn’t sound like Miles, never again needs to kill time — time is Miles Davis’ servant.
  — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
• Queen Elizabeth II—the Queen—was one of the great symbols of that age, though not a creator of it, a servant rather than a master.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• Doo-hak, played by Jang Dong-yoon, is the son of a farmer whose family was once servants to the Choi family.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• According to the bottle’s label, a bishop on a trip to Rome sent his servant ahead to check out the wine in taverns on the route.
  — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• That means none of the bubble-burst poignance that Bartlett and Natasha Rothwell brought as the servant-victims of getaway decadence.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• In one scene, the prince’s servant is kept waiting in a palatial room at the millionaire’s mansion.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• The civil rights leader was a lifelong servant to those without a voice.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
• Historically, the master of the house would live in the big house, and then the servants and the drivers would live in the mews, where the horses and carriages would be kept.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
• He is exposed as one of nature’s head boys: a servant of the real power, in a schoolboy’s suit.
  — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Big, ornate stoves, which servants fed from behind, heated the rooms.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Victoria was born in 1550s England, the second daughter of a wealthy lord and his servant.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• And most of them remain anonymous, just workaday servants to the magic of moviemaking.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• This litany includes the usual suspects—you and your children—but also many more: your servants, your ox and your ass, even the strangers in your midst.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024