How to Use concubine in a Sentence

concubine

noun

• Or maybe the porcupine knows about the skunk and the concubine and just doesn’t care?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• The swells, the potentates would have gone off with their concubines and pet slaves and soldier guards . . .
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• The smuggler, played by Michael Pitt, soon becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron (Ashina).
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• These were the same men, many whose statutes adorn the town squares, that reduced the Black mammy’s sons to ashes and their daughters to concubines under the system of Jim Crow.
  — Dr. Robert O. White Ii, al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Her mother was the sixth concubine to a wealthy businessman who abandoned them and her younger brother when Wu was a child.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2018
• The Walking Dead, which in the last three years has killed off almost every person of color and turned the rest into concubines and cuckolds?
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 15 Dec. 2017
• According to the account left by Sima Qian, the new emperor—the usurper—killed many of his father’s concubines.
  — National Geographic, 12 Oct. 2016
• Madly in love with the Slavic concubine, Suleiman had his favorite son murdered to ensure that one of Hurrem's sons would ascend the throne.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
• Duke Leto’s official concubine, a wife in all but title, and mother of his only son.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2021
• Griffin asked the woman to be his concubine, or second wife, the police document states.
  — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
• So when the Arabian princess Hind (Hart) refuses to become Kisra’s concubine, the stage is set for an epic confrontation.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Nov. 2021
• Another focused on the wicked King Noah who drank wine and flirted with concubines from beneath an elaborate hat.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• Hypocrisy is the concubine of people seeking riches or power over others — or to excuse bullies.
  — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2024
• The story is about a concubine of Grenada’s royal court, Fatima, and her friend Hassan, the court’s cartographer.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 30 Dec. 2018
• Henry, for his part, relishes Eve like a concubine while his wife writes poetry downstairs.
  — Pete Tosiello, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
• Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) Set in a dystopian future where people are unable to get pregnant, the few woman who can get pregnant are forced to become concubines and bear children for the upper class.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 15 Dec. 2017
• That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2023
• The beauty of the house, with its orchid-heavy trees, is eclipsed only by the meal you’ll be served in the fit-for-a-scholar/king parlor: a seven-course feast prepared for you by owner Vinh Tu’s gracious wife, the descendant of a royal concubine.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• Trixie’s bold move backfires thanks to Seth, who (in a moment of petty, surly retribution over being kicked out of his own store by the lovebirds) tells Al that his concubine has been visiting Sol.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• Little girls were also purchased and used as household slaves until old enough to become prostitutes or concubines.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
• Royal gardens, peeling frescoes, and tiled mosaics are breathtaking in their beauty, but the zenith of any visit is a wander through the sultan’s harem, once home to hundreds of concubines and their eunuch guards.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
• That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti (Hayati Azis), suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
• Her father, a former rebel commander, had eight wives and numerous concubines.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• Men might take Makú women as concubines but would never consider marrying one.
  — Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• For Ferguson the masks, veils, and bejeweled finery that Jessica wears during the film’s first half illustrate her position as a concubine, not a noble.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2021
• When her husband returns from the Trojan War, Clytemnestra murders him and his concubine in retaliation.
  — Erin Saxon, kansascity.com, 27 May 2017
• Empress Wu is legendary in China for using her wit, intelligence and cunning to eclipse all rivals and rise from her position as Emperor Taizong’s favorite concubine to the very apex of court life.
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 12 June 2017
• The young women entered Kalinago society as their captor’s concubine or his wife’s servant.
  — Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• Mbande, who openly doted on Kengela as his favourite concubine, was immediately smitten with his newest child.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024