Example sentences for: captivity

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

  • You’ll see messages on the walls of the vaults carved by French prisoners during their captivity.

  • The arguments for keeping such creatures in captivity did not work any more, it said: "Children are not educated by watching a dolphin walking on its tail or a whale carrying human riders on its back."

  • But I think the deeper admiration is for the guts McCain showed in his Vietnamese captivity and which he's shown consistently ever since.

  • It lives on, but its evolution seems to be taking different forms in captivity and in the wild.

  • When the zoo celebrated the first successful hatching in captivity of a king penguin in 1919, it gained world renown: no other zoo had examples of this penguin species.


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