How to Use subservience in a Sentence

subservience

noun

• His utter subservience to the party’s donor class breaks from the pattern.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 31 Aug. 2017
• The result is that women, in the context of the event, seem contained by it, a form of subservience framed as the agency of artistry.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• Kate’s final speech of seeming subservience feels so out of date.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022
• One way to break the pattern of subservience, Swift seems to be saying, is to become the monster itself.
  — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
• In the aftermath, Hoskins set aside his own grief in subservience to that of his younger sister, Meloria.
  — Dave Sheinin, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Dolan, an owner from the very old school of player subservience, has once again flunked modern N.B.A. civics.
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• For too long, the image of enslaved people we were sold was one of compliance and subservience.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 30 July 2021
• His subservience to Putin and Erdogan has inflamed the growing proxy war.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• Luther demanded absolute subservience to the German prince by his flock, no matter how bad the prince might be.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2020
• The faces of his figures refuse to behave or resolve into visual subservience.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• Her subservience pays off , as she's allowed to reunite with Noah, who's crying upstairs.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• The Tigers also boasted the world’s fiercest army of women, even as Tamil society imposed a culture of subservience.
  — Longreads, 22 May 2018
• Negro fell out of fashion with the Black Power movement of the 1960s, coming to symbolize subservience.
  — David Bauder, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2020
• Drollinger’s fondness for abject subservience even extends to climate change.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 5 Oct. 2017
• This event was far more centered on celebrating those attending rather than showing any subservience to the king.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• But standing is a sign of respect, and Miss Manners finds no subservience in showing it for old age, high position or your favorite performer.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• The modesty costumes were meant to indicate subservience, but they have been redeployed by activists to mean the opposite.
  — Annie Sutherland, Quartzy, 13 June 2019
• But plots devised to teach these women subservience have been rendered obsolete by a late-evolving common sense.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• But their rule before she was born has become its own history lessons, now amplified as her classmates dread a return to subservience.
  — Author: Alex Horton, Ezzatullah Mehrdad, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2021
• And Trump, who burned through three campaign managers in less than a year and routinely mocks his aides to their faces, is a hard boss to please, demanding not merely loyalty but, at times, subservience.
  — Maggie Haberman, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2017
• His craven subservience to Putin also has been a central pillar of his administration.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• In Gilead—the repressive American regime in which the main protagonist Offred is forced to live—it is intended to function as a sign of female subservience.
  — Annie Sutherland, Quartzy, 13 June 2019
• The price of borrowing from China is tough terms of repayment and political subservience.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
• The book, through case studies, examined the entrenched societal systems that preserved the subservience, dependence and hopelessness of the slave era.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• British culture, like other European and Asian cultures, was long based on the subservience of the individual character to the role, or job, required.
  — Mohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2022
• The two quickly turned to groveling and begging for Trump’s support, each trying to outdo the other in showing their subservience rather than their independence.
  — cleveland, 29 Dec. 2021
• Usually, however, a male will yield to the stronger challenger, often showing subservience by grooming or making a coughing sound.
  — National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2016
• Kyrie's) passing inclinations on the basketball court have not been regular enough to qualify as a phase, a craze, or anything but abject subservience to his one-on-one plays.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 26 July 2017
• Once heralded as a fearless lawman, game-changing New York City mayor and Sept. 11 hero, he is now defined by a subservience to the 45th president that sometimes veered into buffoonery.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• What some may see as subservience to power interests and shady, consistent avoidance of engaging with the public may be imagined by others as unorthodox tactfulness.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024