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slave - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- sin: And he says about us, you were slaves of sin.
Converse of object
- emancipate: The emancipated slave is constructed as a powerful and striking figure.
- escape: In it Paul is trying to save the life of an escaped slave without sounding too demanding to his owner.
Adjective modifier
- runaway: Huck runs away from home and finds a runaway slave called Jim.
- fugitive: In doing so, he meets with a fugitive slave named Jim.
- African: Did you see the fight of the African slave?
- Hebrew: The exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt is not a victory or triumph of the same order as the resurrection.
- obedient: Soon, she would be his totally obedient slave.
- former: The point I stressed in my book is that Peter ended this sort of slavery by making former slaves subject to the poll tax.
Modifies a noun
- trade: Maybe the old slave trade has been almost closed.
- labor: Of these, 115,000 were deported to Poland for slave labor, and after departure all trace of them was lost.
- trader: Europeans became slave traders largely by purchase from powerful African tribes.
- revolt: In 1791 these Africans began the only successful national slave revolt in history.
- labor: Massive fortifications were built with slave labor brought in from all over Europe.
Noun used with modifier
- galley: A galley slave, for instance, has the privilege of stealing with impunity.
- chattel: What an idiot I would be to make chattel slaves of them.
- wage: What is a Virtual Assistant worth... From wage slave to home alone From wage slave to home alone.
- sex: Why were they not raiding a drugs den or a human trafficking sex slave brothel instead?
- plantation: On the plantations slaves lasted on average four years.
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