How to Use enslave in a Sentence

enslave

verb

• The captives were freed just five years after they were enslaved, thanks to the end of the Civil War.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Hughes said that about a half-dozen enslaved people lived in the house when it was built around 1850.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2018
• But the people enslaved by Thomas are not named in the document.
  — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• The modern concept of race has been used too long to enslave and exploit.
  — John Blake, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
• The Tampa Bay Times found nearly half of the people named were not enslaved.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• As the story goes, he was kidnapped and enslaved at age 16 and brought over to Ireland.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• The enslaved turned out tasty meals from the scraps and undesired cuts of meat tossed aside by slave masters.
  — Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• The names of the 356 people enslaved on the plantation are etched in granite slabs on what is dubbed the Wall of Honor.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• More than 6,000 women were enslaved, and men were lined up and shot outside their towns.
  — Cathy Otten, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
• Thousands were killed, others enslaved, and many who fled to the mountains were starved out.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• And sub-Saharan Africans weren’t the first people to be enslaved.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 5 June 2018
• Africans, both enslaved and free, some of whom had been among the first conquistadors.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• Over 20 enslaved Africans on the ship were sold, and with that, American slavery was born.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 26 Aug. 2019
• But the process would take a little time; central banks will not want to appear too enslaved to the markets.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• The populations in the North and South were almost equal, but one-third of those living in the South were enslaved.
  — Doug Melville, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• The Seder is embedded in a sense of being enslaved and then being free.
  — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
• She was born free, but she was later enslaved by a colored man.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• According to Elaine Weintraub of the Trail, enslaved Negroes lived in the maritime colony as far back as the 1700's.
  — Essence.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• Some say the photo looks like a young black girl was being enslaved by her classmates.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2017
• The game footage takes place on Kashyyyk, a Wookie planet, where Wookies have been enslaved.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 8 June 2019
• But the long time frame doubtless made that cold comfort to the people enslaved at Mount Vernon.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
• As soon as the Union Army came within reach, enslaved people freed themselves — by the tens of thousands.
  — Adam Sanchez, Teen Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
• That evil is white European colonialism, which has come to the shores of Africa in the 1800s to enslave the Dahomey Kingdom.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 July 2022
• There is no mystery as to why a black person would cast off the identity that kept him enslaved.
  — Emily Bernard, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• The species that once enslaved others now toils to pay for the care of its pets, which lounge on the sofa waiting to be taken to the grooming salon.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• She was enslaved at a young age and began working the field harvesting flax at age 13.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
• The speech advocated for the poor and marginalized, for those starving and enslaved.
  — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• Lane had been a nurse on the plantation where she was enslaved, and over the years, that has influenced the group’s makeup and mission.
  — Sari Botton, Longreads, 12 Oct. 2017
• The museum also has information gleaned from excavations and research on some of the people who were enslaved by the Jackson family.
  — Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
• In that agreement, all Black people who had been enslaved by the Muscogee Nation were emancipated and provided with full Creek citizenship privileges, including the right to landownership.
  — Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jan 2025