How to Use bondage in a Sentence

bondage

noun
Definition of bondagenext
Synonyms for bondagenext
  • On June 2, Burns was escorted to a waiting ship and returned to bondage.
    — Robert K. Sutton, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The supermodel wore a white tee, bell bottoms with bondage detailing, a teeny purse, gold chains, and vintage-y shades.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 13 July 2017
  • A place where Africans were brought to this country under extreme conditions of human bondage and degradation.
    — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Plague years James left Cleveland once, seven years ago, and the plagues of Egypt descended on us, even though he had been freed from bondage.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
  • Write a novel about a magical world filled with one or more of the following: dying high school students, bondage enthusiasts, murderous wives, or drifters who solve crimes.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The fact that the vast majority of those killed and maimed held no slaves suggests there was more to the Southern soldiers' fervor than a burning desire to secure human bondage.
    — Author: Kathleen Parker, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Same with the Confederate generals who led the rebellion against the union in an effort to preserve states’ rights to keep slavery legal and people in bondage.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The images and videos depicted acts of violence, bondage and bestiality involving children, a court document said.
    — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 14 July 2017
  • Four Confederate memorials had just come down in New Orleans in parts of the city not far from where thousands of men and women were bought and sold into bondage.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 25 June 2017
  • But Reeves’s story ends up echoing a very old one—essentially, Moses leading his people out of bondage and into freedom—without weaving in any nuance.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
  • Every true Congressman or woman will join the struggle with inflexible determination not to remain alive to see the country in bondage and slavery.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2017
  • There will be the chains of bondage and the pointy hat of the Klan.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 22 July 2019
  • The thin black straps that allude to very soft bondage.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
  • We’re freed from the bondage and tyranny of sin that gripped our lives.
    — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The black lives held in bondage by the Jesuits in 1838 did not matter to Mulledy.
    — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Rufus Burgess mined gold in the river to buy his way out of bondage.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 16 May 2024
  • Few are lucky enough to achieve release from long-term bondage.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Dead Indians to the left and African Americans to the right in bondage.
    — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2019
  • Yet the interviews still provide a glimpse at the harshness of life in bondage.
    — Raphael E. Rogers, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2022
  • When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage.
    — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Just add ropes or your favorite bondage equipment and voila!
    — Ashley Cobb, Essence, 28 July 2022
  • There are real chains of bondage here, and that’s because of the foundation.
    — The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
  • Feminists saw something like bondage in the dress straps that held the subject’s arms close to her body.
    — William Grimes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • This story to me has always summed up the power of white supremacy: Choose a life of bondage or refuse and limp.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • God had a purpose in plaguing Egypt: to persuade the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from bondage.
    — Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • The vision was of her as a military leader with, of course, some leather bondage pieces over it.
    — Gary Grimes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But the phrase came to mean more than simply a way of escaping feudal bondage.
    — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The years of our silence and captivity; years of protest, bondage and the walls behind which we are trapped.
    — Nasrin Sotoudeh, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
  • In freedom, as in bondage, Tilghman Davis lived on the periphery of wealth.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Most of these southern Black migrants would have been only five years out of bondage, only five years in freedom.
    — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024

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