Example sentences for: captive

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

  • Understanding an animal's natural behavior increases conservation opportunities, particularly captive breeding efforts of endangered species.

  • This makes the Office of Drug Safety “captive,” he said, to the Office of New Drugs.

  • Specifically, he warns that international support for U.S. raids cannot be "recycled indefinitely" and that the U.S. is becoming "more captive to a fragile U.N. consensus."

  • The pundits, captive to the geopolitics of machismo, think saying yes is easy.

  • 1 We also know that the ED visit offers a potential "teachable moment" due to the possible negative consequences surrounding it and that in essence we, as emergency physicians, have a captive audience.


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