Sentence examples for a vassal from inspiring English sources

"A friend does not mean a vassal".

That would make us a vassal state.

I am no longer a vassal in a faceless bureaucracy.

Cornell's troops turned Dartmouth's militia into a vassal force.

Norway fiercely denies it is a "vassal state".

But a "vassal mentality" among Serbian politicians had too long allowed "the humiliation of Serbia".

Nobunaga Oda, after all, committed ritual suicide under threat of assassination by a vassal turned enemy.

"Are we to become a vassal of the Chinese dynasty again?" one Japanese official asked.

(Greece was a vassal state when Lord Elgin's men showed up with their crowbars and cranes).

"You know, the Philippines is not a vassal state," he replied.

The lord of Yue was nominally a vassal of the Chinese king.