Example sentences for: captive

How can you use “captive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The cockpit voice recorder data indicate that a woman, most likely a flight attendant, was being held captive in the cockpit.

  • The FAA analysts judged such an operation unlikely, because "it does not offer an opportunity for dialogue to achieve the key goal of obtaining Rahman and other key captive extremists.

  • It's the only spongiform encephalopathy known to naturally infect both free-ranging and captive animals, a situation that greatly complicates efforts to monitor, control, or eradicate it.

  • He then took them captive and sold them into slavery.

  • Henry Hyde, R-Ill., and his dozen co-managers, they have a captive audience.


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