Example sentences for: captives

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

  • Flowing in and out of 80 arched passageways known as vomitoria, aristocrats and plebs alike came to see blood: bears, lions, tigers, and leopards starved into fighting each other and against criminals, war captives, and (according to some historians) Christians.

  • While the island was owned at various times by each of the major European colonial powers active in West Africa, the LAT is wrong to describe it as the place "where millions of Africans ended their lives as free people and became captives of white men sending them across the ocean to an unknown future."

  • Coalition warfare also requires coalition policies on what to do with enemy captives.

  • Only half the captives survived.

  • One source refers to his “hog-tied” captives.


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