servant

Example Sentences

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The whole saga has now cost another person their job – Sir Olly Robbins, the most senior civil servant in the Foreign Office.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

A beneficiary might have to bow and scrape like a courtier, or accept treatment as a glorified servant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

“You don’t need to use them — you just need to wear them,” a civil servant says, capturing the government’s one-size-fits-all indifference.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The obscure law bans a person from soliciting or receiving nonpublic information from a public servant by means of their office or employment with the intent to obtain a benefit.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026

His grandmother, a cook known as Old Doll, was a Custis servant who had come to Mount Vernon with Martha.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis