slaver

The Portuguese monarchy also hired explorers such as Alvise Cadamosto, a Venetian slaver sent to scout the region of Senegambia.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The plaque was installed in the church after the 18th Century slaver died in Dorchester in 1744, aged 46, during a visit to England - he was Scottish by birth.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022

This casting decision makes a clear point: Kind or not, a slaver is still a slaver.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2022

“Is he looking for the whole truth here? The fact that he was a slaver and ran slaves up to the colonies? That’s what the historical documents say,” Hunt said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022

The sea was green and the sky was grey the morning Grief and Warrior Wench and Victarion’s own Iron Victory captured the slaver galley from Yunkai in the waters due north of the Yellow City.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Thus the British, who had been such enthusiastic slavers, went on to force Muslim rulers to end their own version of the practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

By the sixteenth century, Elmina had become one of the earliest direct links between European slavers and the slave markets of the African interior.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

They could be lamentations or celebrations; at the same time, they could serve as a means of stealthy communication, spreading news outside the ken of white slavers.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

My own version of that would be: “Since the legacy of slavers cannot be borne, their names are crossed out. Since the legacy of slavers cannot be covered up, their names remain legible.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

“Warships cannot be made from brick. The slavers burned every stand of timber within twenty leagues of here.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

New York’s talent-hungry musical theater slavered for a follow-up.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019

Then he did a bit in which he slavered over Sabra hummus and Rold Gold pretzels.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2015

They slavered over the delicious incongruity of this young thruster mixing it up with gimlet-eyed corporate lawyers, and winning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015

Certainly not the critics, who slavered over its Royal Court premiere in 2007 and West End transfer, where the cast included the then-future Doctor Who, Matt Smith.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2010

He was half-way under the railing when she caught him up and held him at arm’s length while he howled and barked and slavered.

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London

But some of the verdicts weren't just from long-standing critics or those with a dog slavering to get in to the fight.

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

Miller took one of the better-known characters from Stephen King's ginormous novel and transformed him into a slavering, blithering idiot, adding one more thing to despise atop a mountain of mediocrity.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2021

With Star Wars: The Last Jedi, writer-director Rian Johnson made a point of answering questions set up by The Force Awakens, and giving fans some answers they were slavering for.

From The Verge ● Dec. 18, 2017

Among the movie’s pleasures is a creature design that at last breaks with H. R. Giger’s slavering aliens.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2016

But Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller