dependent state
Example Sentences
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It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
Every invention of what is called science takes the human race farther and farther from nature, nearer and nearer to an artificial, unnatural and dependent state.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
I am chiefly reconciled to leaving her, because I trust that in her enfeebled, dependent state, she may become influenced by Miss Charlecote and by you.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
His behaviour in this dependent state, was the very reverse of what it should have been.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus
He was miserably put upon; treated with less consideration than the servants; made to feel his dependent state daily and hourly by petty annoyances; and yet she could not openly interfere!
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
