How to Use servant in a Sentence

servant

noun

• This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, declares the Lord.
  — Lauren Wellbank, Woman's Day, 9 Mar. 2023
• The servant uses all her might to hold down Holofernes on the bed.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• The other is Lispeth, the young servant who takes care of Marek.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2022
• Suárez was his best friend on the team and, in his eyes, a loyal servant to the club.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
• And when dinner was ready, a servant would sound the chimes.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 May 2022
• Teri Roberts: God has blessed me with a servant’s heart.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• One of the main characters in the saga is a servant named Leo.
  — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Well, the servants are the ones who did the grocery shopping, the dry cleaning, et cetera.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 16 Dec. 2023
• Your spoon was likely a gift to a maid or house servant.
  — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
• Or of the servant’s child who died of disease on the property.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
• Remember, the leader of them all is the servant of them all.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• Edwards had worked as a cook in the 1985 edition of the race, and she was treated like a servant or worse.
  — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
• The tallest candle in the menorah, called the shamash, or servant, is the one from which all of the other candles are lit.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• In 415, Athaulf was attacked by a resentful servant and stabbed in the groin; the wound soon proved to be lethal.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• Andrew was a humble servant who didn’t need or want his name in the news.
  — Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
• Five key rules to being a strategist, not a servant: 1.
  — Rosie Guest, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• It's told from the perspective of servants within the palace.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024
• Girls go to parents who want a servant or a bride for an only son.
  — Fu Ting, orlandosentinel.com, 15 July 2021
• So the women who might have gone out to be a domestic servant, not so many of them did.
  — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
• Even the servants’ bathroom and a coal furnace remained in the basement.
  — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• But in the movie, Rudolf’s affair with a servant is more subtly implied.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• The phrase suggests that a spouse ought to be a foil, a point of contrast, neither a mirror nor a servant.
  — Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2022
• His public record as a servant of God speaks for itself.
  — Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
• Here was God’s servant, our Queen, Charles’s mother and Philip’s wife, in that order.
  — Dr. Tessa Dunlop, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
• And a tale-teller was a servant hired to put people to sleep by talking a load of rubbish to them.
  — Ali Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Marty Markowitz is his doormat, as well as his bank and his servant.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Only Holt’s third servant, an old and infirm man, lent a hand.
  — Eric Jay Dolin, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
• Boccaccio was born in Florence in the 1300s and grew up during the era of nobles and servants.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 27 July 2024
• Cheon-yeong grows up as Jong-ryeo’s slave, teaching him to fight but also being whipped for his failures, as was the custom for such servants.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• The household in the 1970s was routinely described as a three-ring circus filled with rowdy kids, lost pets and haggard servants who often quit in frustration, saying Ethel was difficult to work for.
  — Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024