slave driver
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The rebels were led by Charles Deslondes, a mixed-race slave who laboured as a slave driver on Andry’s plantation.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2019
Perhaps as many five hundred joined the rebellion, led by Charles Deslondes, a mixed-race slave driver on a sugar plantation owned by Manuel Andry.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Stern, on the other hand, is "a slave driver."
From Time Magazine Archive
He considers the adrenals the "power station" of the sympathetic nervous system, the frontal lobe of the brain as the "slave driver."
From Time Magazine Archive
I shall be as grim as grim can be and a regular slave driver as far as lessons are concerned.
From Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
