Galley-slave in a Sentence
  • He had been taken prisoner by Dragut, who made him row for a year as a galley slave till ransomed.
  • After spending some time as a Genoese galley-slave, he turned corsair and became the terror of the Mediterranean coasts.
  • Don't have enough time for 212 minutes of Ben-Hur but want a taste of galley slave life and a good old-fashioned blood 'n guts chariot race?