How to Use manservant in a Sentence

manservant

noun

• Ah, that a gentleman should be deprived of a manservant!
  — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• The true story of an enslaved couple who escaped to freedom by posing as a wealthy White man and his manservant.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Each confuses the inspector with a different version of how the manservant broke his neck.
  — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2019
• Their skyscrapers, trains and robotic advances (as in a robot manservant named Lancelot who makes pancakes) shaped modern New York.
  — John Stephens, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• The gate is guarded by an elderly manservant for whom the term faithful retainer might have been invented.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
• That was high praise indeed, for Darnes had accompanied Kirby Smith across the country and beyond as his enslaved manservant.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• John Smith saves the man who fell overboard; Ratcliffe is the government lackey in a suit who hunkers down in his cabin and only emerges once the danger has passed, clutching his pug while his manservant shields him with an umbrella.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2021
• His unflappable manservant, Jeeves, by contrast, is a master of restraint who quietly rescues the hapless Wooster from innumerable scrapes of his own making.
  — Nicholas Frankel, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• The elderly Carr doffs his bathrobe to become his younger self to participate in his encounters with the others, who also include his manservant, Bennett (Patrick Kerr), who harbors revolutionary sympathies.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024