Example Sentences

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It recounts the terror of falling in love—how the process subjugates people, leaves them vulnerable.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

I read all the recent controversy surrounding Elisabeth Badinter's book, The Conflict, in which Badinter suggests breastfeeding and attachment parenting subjugates working women.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2012

On the other, it has tended to finesse or sidestep the issue of whether polygamy itself, or polygamy as practiced by the Henricksons, empowers or subjugates women.

From Time • Mar. 21, 2011

Over in Milton Cross, there's a feudal lord of the manor who makes his wife wash strangers' feet, subjugates everyone in the village into going to church and is unaccountably irresistible to every woman.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2010

She appeals less to the senses, but more to the heart; she subjugates the spectator less, but touches him more: it is the courtesan redeemed, purified by love, as M. Alexandre Dumas conceived her.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack