Sentence examples for be a subservient from inspiring English sources
Their relationship is full of cultural conflicts; he expects her to be a subservient African wife, and she yearns for the freedom of a working woman.
Making money is a subservient, if not uncomfortable objective.
Kara, or AX400, is a subservient housekeeper at the mercy of an abusive owner.
The symphony was initially criticized in Russia and the West for being a subservient, long-winded ode to Socialist Realism and unadventurous in its conservative, 19th-century Russian idiom.
To numerous commentators: the Scottish Executive or Government is a subservient body.
Because the only good pug is a subservient pug!
It's a subservient role as written, but Lacey unearths its clarity and substance.
By definition, the mammy is a subservient figure: someone defined by her relationship to whiteness, someone who's perfectly happy being a second-class citizen.
Athletes, and especially football players, tend to be a conservative and subservient group.
"I can't be in a subservient or an obsequious part.
Ms. Greig, he said, is a meek, subservient woman whom Mr. Bulger ordered around.
