How to Use subservience in a Sentence

subservience

noun
Definition of subserviencenext
Synonyms for subserviencenext
  • 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  • Kate’s final speech of seeming subservience feels so out of date.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

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