Sentence examples for looked a slave from inspiring English sources

At one level, it was not nearly so crazy as it looked: a slave insurrection had succeeded in Haiti almost within living memory, and Brown's plan remained a successful model for Latin-American guerrillas into our own time, right down to the mélange of outside agitators and local agrarian rebels.

I asked my boys what they thought about her and they laughed, said, Yo, she looks like a slave.

"You look like a slave," he told a black classmate, and was marched down to the principal's office for a chat.

There were articles about the conflicts between secular and religious populations; about demonstrations in Tel Aviv demanding civil rights for African immigrants; about powerful rabbis making racist statements; about the addiction to cheap foreign labor ("The streets of south Tel Aviv look like a slave market in the morning," one article began).

"What black cat crossed your path and confused you?" Then he wrapped his arms around a nearby Russian workman: "Does this man look like a slave laborer?" Nixon, trying to be Mr. Nice Guy, noted that Russian and American workers had cooperated in building the exhibition and added: "There must be an exchange of ideas.

Aw, made you look/ You a slave to a page in my rhyme book".

So we saw exactly what excrement smeared over prison cell walls and crawling with maggots looks like, or a sex addict masturbating in a toilet cubicle, and now we see exactly what a slave looks like hanging from a noose, while other slaves avert their gaze.

Note the use of the passive voice in the verbs "were broken apart" and "was sold". If the sentence had been written according to the principles of good draftsmanship, it would have looked like this: Slave owners often broke slave families apart by selling a family member to another owner.

Right up until the last moment it looked like 12 Years a Slave might come away with nothing – just as The Color Purple got 11 nominations and no Oscars 30 years ago – but in the end it just slipped in.

But Lupita Nyong'o, the 31-year-old actor who plays Patsy in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, looks to have the edge over American Hustle's Jennifer Lawrence, also up for best supporting actress at the 86th Academy Awards.

When the first band of missionaries, in swallow-tailed coats and knee breeches, arrived on the beach in Tahiti, the king of the island came to look them over, riding a slave who crawled through the sand on his hands and knees; under such circumstances, two of the craftful men went native, two went mad, several more deserted on the first passing European ship.