Example sentences for: captivity

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

  • Eventually famine compelled Abraham’s tribes to move into Egypt and into captivity.

  • This special explores the issues facing African elephants in the wild and captivity and highlights a number of conservationists and their work.

  • Experts believe the recently published document is just an outline to the 1,200-page memoir Eichmann wrote during his captivity in Israel (1960-62).

  • Mizrahi (or “eastern”) Jews are from West Asia, Central Asia, and North Africa, including black-eyed, high-cheekboned Yemenite Jews; Jews from the mountains of Kurdistan and the dusty plateaus of Bukhara; and Iraqi Jews, whose community existed from the days of the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century b.c. until modern times.

  • His wife and their charming 12-year-old daughter--the apple of his eye--share his captivity.


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