He had scraped and slaved and studied throughout with the idea of coming East to college.
Over there in Paris, with all our smashing of idols, we had at least held fast to our one great goddess of art, we had slaved like dogs at the hard daily labor of honestly learning our various crafts.
Haven't I worked and slaved myself to death and gone about in rags?
You're a nice one to tell me to think of the child, I who worked and slaved for him all these years.
His voice shook as he told how he had slaved through all the years, looking forward only to this moment when he should come back to see the little Pip whom he had made into a gentleman.
It seemed he had entirely forgotten the old days when she slaved so for him.
From the order, "Stretcher squads fall in" at the moment of landing, these men slaved on the ridges and in those valleys of torment.
Three years he had slaved for the sweater, stinted and starved himself, before he had saved enough to send for his wife and children, awaiting his summons in the city by the Black Sea.
Since they came they had slaved and starved together; for wages had become steadily less, work more grinding, and hours longer and later.
My father has not slaved to feed the idleness of another man's daughter!
And, in any case, I have not slaved my eyes away that another man's child may be fed.
Oh, my business, my splendid business, that I slaved and sweated out my marrow for, dwindling, dwindling with every ticking of the clock!
For hour after hour, while the calm moon slowly climbed the sky, each slaved at his dull task.
As for you, you've sweated andslaved so much that your clothes hang on like you a slop-chest shirt on a stanchion just now.
Paul slaved for an hour, and seemed to have mastered nothing.
He was suddenly afire over a new idea for a comedy, and from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same he slaved at it and exulted in it day by day.
The men slaved like so many convicts under the vigilant surveillance of Crass, Misery and Rushton.
It was to make possible the attainment of this object that Misery slaved and drove and schemed and cheated.
Every horse in the Valley seemed suddenly to require reshoeing; wagon springs broke; buggy tires came off or wore out as they had never done before; morning, noon and night Phil slaved trying to cope with the emergency.
To keep me from thinking--for the thinking is what drives men mad--I worked and slaved night and day.
Doyle's wife being for a second time transported, he went with her in the same ship, and having arrived in Virginia, slaved there some time, until he began to grow weary of the place.
Nobody will ever know how I slaved in those early days.
He slaved harder than any of those he paid to work for him and he had none of their respite from care.
Now, however, since I have bought my brushes and painting materials, I have slaved so hard that I am dead tired--seven colour studies straight off!
He was a hard fellow, too, always in pretty good condition, which was remarkable considering how he slaved for nine months out of the twelve.
He was an uncommonly good linguist, and had always about a dozen hobbies which he slaved at; and when he found himself at Deira with a good deal of leisure, he became a bigger crank than ever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slaved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
