How to Use indentured servant in a Sentence

indentured servant

noun

• In the 1620s, tobacco in the southern British colonies was worked by indentured servants.
  — Steve Haycox, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Aug. 2017
• Logan fixed the problem; Kendall is now, more or less, his indentured servant.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2019
• By the end of the 17th century, the colonies’ reliance on indentured servants had shifted toward that of enslaved African people.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2019
• So the indentured servants and other migrants from England had a brief but strong influence on Sranan.
  — Nicole Creanza, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2018
• Johnson served out his contract and went on to run his own tobacco farm and hold his own indentured servants, among them Casor.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• The fae work in lowly occupations, often as indentured servants to work off the cost of their passage to safety.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2019
• This would also make the whole system less exploitative, so that moms like Kylia Carter didn't feel like their sons were treated like indentured servants.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2018
• Individuals who sign up live in prison-like accommodations, eat scraps, and work as indentured servants for the rest of their lives.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 7 July 2018
• His grandparents moved to the South American nation around 1835 to work in the sugar industry – as indentured servants.
  — Adelaide Chen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Rogers never misses a beat in a stellar and often frenetic portrayal as Mary, an indentured servant and the most fervently religious of the girls.
  — Patti Restivo, baltimoresun.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Mary’s mother probably was an indentured servant from England, like 80 percent of all free women who immigrated to the Chesapeake at that time.
  — Marjoleine Kars, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• Her great-grandparents also left India and became indentured servants in Guyana.
  — Adelaide Chen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Before then, more families lived on farms, out of sight of surveillance, and children could be their parents’ little workers—indentured servants until adulthood.
  — Lynne Tillman, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• As a wealthy estate ruler named Don Lucas (Yan Collazo) nears his final days, indentured servants, love interests and distant relatives vie over what will remain of his riches.
  — OregonLive.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• The Servants Plot, as it was known, involved white and black indentured servants who rebelled against the colony’s exploitative tobacco cultivation industry.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
• Giannini’s fourth great-grandfather, Antonio Giannini, and his family came to the colonies from Italy in 1773 as indentured servants.
  — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• But companies have made no such effort at the southern California ports, even after hundreds of truckers told regulators they were treated as modern-day indentured servants.
  — Brett Murphy, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2017
• Similarly, the enslavement of Africans in the South helped the region’s white indentured servants graduate into legal and political equality.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 3 May 2018
• Instead, these immigrants were deceived, overworked and unable to escape their hardship, essentially held as indentured servants.
  — Gene Baur, Fortune, 8 June 2018
• Indeed, these boat records indicate that indentured servants departing for English colonies were predominantly from the regions identified by our language analysis.
  — Nicole Creanza, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2018
• Instead, the law subjected them to the far harsher provisions of Chapter 13, effectively turning borrowers into indentured servants of institutions like the credit card companies headquartered in Delaware.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• European indentured servants, considered poor whites, who were given the opportunity to be overseers of plantations to keep slaves in line, now hauntingly echoes modern-day law enforcement taking over that overseer responsibility in society.
  — Jo Ann Zuniga, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024