Example sentences for: captives

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

  • Only half the captives survived.

  • Ball marvels that he may possess thousands of black "blood kin" who are descended from his ancestors' captives.

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

  • 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.

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


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