How to Use slaver in a Sentence
slaver
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The slavers stripped him of his clothes and bound him hand and foot to the bottom of a boat.
—Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
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And what of that July heat in 1761 when the small slaver docked in Boston?
—Drea Brown Zócalo Public Square, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
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The slaver himself is the one to point out the contradiction in this.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
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The setting sun seems to set the ocean ablaze, while to its left, the tossing slaver appears to be swallowed up by a knifed spray of white.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
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Spurred on by the protest, Colston’s Girls School took down its own statue of the slaver and is considering changing its name.
—The Economist, 13 June 2020
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In Bristol, England, protesters toppled the statue of a slaver and rolled it into the sea.
—National Geographic, 8 June 2020
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The Nimble’s deadly pursuit of the slaver in American waters, however, marked the beginning of the end of the line.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
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Out of options, Nina suddenly yells that Matthias is a slaver who has captured her.
—Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
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The slaver’s captain preferred not to risk losing the payday his precious human cargo promised.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
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The power of these slaver classes was based on their ability to trade with the West, and they were often usurped by stronger mercenaries who took over their trade by force.
—Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
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But, even as the celebrations persisted, there was rising dissent in Bristol about whether the city should take a slaver as its mascot.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
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Charles Deslondes, a slave driver of Haitian descent, marshaled an insurrection against the slaver Manuel Andry, turning the tools of the plantation—the axe, the sugar cane knife—against his master.
—Kandist Mallett, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2021
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Carved with the faces of their enslaved ancestors and stolen from their slaver, the piano at the play’s center transposes the long shadow of slavery into Berniece’s pride for her family’s history.
—Michael Appler, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
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Slave-making ants, for example, steal larvae from other nests and chemically imprint them to become workers serving the slavers’ queen.
—Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
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One extravagance includes a slave child’s reciting the Declaration of Independence just to incite a slaver’s anger.
—Armond White, National Review, 12 May 2021
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Another puts you in the worst possible situation: naked, hungry, missing an arm and in slaver territory.
—Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2022
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The authorities removed the statue of Robert Milligan, another slaver, from London’s docklands.
—The Economist, 13 June 2020
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Hartman pored over records that often amounted to commercial transactions of enslaved bodies: slaver manifests, trade ledgers, food inventories, captains’ logs, bills of sale.
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
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Moments later, slavers pillaging the area capture him, and kill his mother, Fatima (powerful mezzo-soprano Cierra Byrd).
—Adeline Sire, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
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On annual memorial days throughout the century that followed, Bristol’s schoolchildren remembered Colston as a philanthropist not a slaver.
—The Economist, 13 June 2020
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The slavers stripped him of his clothes and bound him hand and foot to the bottom of a boat.
—Catherine M. Cameron, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
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And what of that July heat in 1761 when the small slaver docked in Boston?
—Drea Brown Zócalo Public Square, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
-
The slaver himself is the one to point out the contradiction in this.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
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The setting sun seems to set the ocean ablaze, while to its left, the tossing slaver appears to be swallowed up by a knifed spray of white.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
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Spurred on by the protest, Colston’s Girls School took down its own statue of the slaver and is considering changing its name.
—The Economist, 13 June 2020
-
In Bristol, England, protesters toppled the statue of a slaver and rolled it into the sea.
—National Geographic, 8 June 2020
-
The Nimble’s deadly pursuit of the slaver in American waters, however, marked the beginning of the end of the line.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
-
Out of options, Nina suddenly yells that Matthias is a slaver who has captured her.
—Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
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The slaver’s captain preferred not to risk losing the payday his precious human cargo promised.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
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The power of these slaver classes was based on their ability to trade with the West, and they were often usurped by stronger mercenaries who took over their trade by force.
—Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
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