How do you use Subservient in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like subordinate or instrumental, plus the exact meaning.
Subservient in a sentence
Subservient meaning
- Useful in an inferior capacity.
- Obsequiously submissive.
Synonyms of Subservient
Using Subservient
- The main meaning on this page is: Useful in an inferior capacity. | Obsequiously submissive.
- Useful related words include: subordinate, implemental, instrumental, helpful.
- In the example corpus, subservient often appears in combinations such as: subservient to, be subservient, is subservient.
Context around Subservient
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Subservient
- In this selection, "subservient" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, become, inherently, totally, economically, position and person stand out and add context to how "subservient" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and was subservient to her and be as subservient as possible. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "subservient" sits close to words such as acuity, ademola and albans, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with subservient
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He refused to be subservient to them. (7 words)
Be quiet, remain subservient, and wait for the oppressor’s good will. (12 words)
Technology, viewed as formless and uncompassionate, has positioned humans in a subservient position. (13 words)
In this environment, a woman was meant to be subservient to her husband, and part of that meant taking her husband’s last name to demonstrate that she no longer belonged to her father, but to another man. (38 words)
And at the end of this lengthy, difficult to navigate system, federal government decisions more often than not are subservient to state laws anyway, because America's federation preserves strong power amongst the 50 states. (35 words)
In turn, the EPA and DOH cannot be subservient to the military — and instead, must bring their full regulatory authority to bear, keeping in sight the obligation to protect Hawaii’s environment. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Africa has since become dominated, conquered, politicized along ethnic and religious lines, still subservient economically, socially and religiously to the whims and caprices of their colonial masters.
But Kimi held herself back for years, saying she subconsciously followed her mother’s footsteps as a wife who stayed quiet and was subservient to her husband.
But now that Wall Street has reëvaluated how to value Netflix, and its subscribers are subservient to profit, they’re having to adjust their business model.
Everything that has existed or shall ever exist in this world is subservient to Him, bound to His power, and totally dependent upon His grace.
He considered most other races to be subhuman and thought it only natural that they be subservient to Aryans.
He refused to be subservient to them.
It never lets its pacing or sure-handed command of character become subservient to plot or the need for action or difficulty that’s assumed of videogames.
It's degradation at its worst; the leader of the Rebel forces made to be subservient to a crime lord.
Technology, viewed as formless and uncompassionate, has positioned humans in a subservient position.
The job is inherently subservient — the only thing worse than embarrassing the president is outshining him — and the office almost always diminishes its occupant.
The women are often taught that their husband is the man of the house and they are to be subservient.
This important arm of government who are supposedly the true representatives of the people has become totally subservient to the Executive.
Well, yes, they would like Taiwan to be as subservient as possible so they are distracted from what Beijing is doing.
After he was defeated and forced to join Kaido’s Beast Pirates, however, Hawkins became a quiet and subservient person.
And at the end of this lengthy, difficult to navigate system, federal government decisions more often than not are subservient to state laws anyway, because America's federation preserves strong power amongst the 50 states.
As if a superior AI would ever require assistance from a mere human, even one whose mind has been wiped clean and replaced with subservient algorithms.
Be quiet, remain subservient, and wait for the oppressor’s good will.
But tradwives seem to rile people up the when their ideology appears rooted in nothing but earnest ardor for a hyperdomestic, heteronormatively subservient, anti-girlboss lifestyle.
In this environment, a woman was meant to be subservient to her husband, and part of that meant taking her husband’s last name to demonstrate that she no longer belonged to her father, but to another man.
In turn, the EPA and DOH cannot be subservient to the military — and instead, must bring their full regulatory authority to bear, keeping in sight the obligation to protect Hawaii’s environment.
Common combinations with subservient
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- subservient to 57×
- be subservient 17×
- is subservient 5×
- are subservient 4×
- subservient position 3×
- not subservient 3×
- of subservient 3×
- become subservient 2×
- subservient the 2×
- as subservient 2×