Example Sentences

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Nor do I recommend searching for coherence in its post-Colonial politics, what with the servant-like assistance Georgia receives from a Congolese friend who helps with investigation and exposition.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2019

And the hired footman came, with a silent step of cold servant-like disapprobation.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

ATHENIAN: Ridicule, and the difficulty of getting the feminine and servant-like dispositions of the nurses to comply.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

But Hortense would put the finishing touches herself, and these finishing touches consisted in a thick handkerchief tied round the throat, and a large, servant-like black apron, which spoiled everything.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

The servant of Abraham, servant-like, was well content that Rebekah should draw for all his camels, while he stood still.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.