Example sentences for: captivity

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

  • The Zoo (Parc Zoológic, on Ciutadella Park, Tel. 93/221 25 06), has the world’s only albino gorilla in captivity.

  • The account of the five and half years McCain spent in captivity, which occupies the second half of his book, is wonderful: vivid, unsentimental, and very moving.

  • In 1967, mule deer in a research facility near Fort Collins, Colorado, in the United States apparently began to react badly to 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."

  • His most heroic act of insubordination was declining to be released from maggot-infested captivity ahead of other POWs who were captured before he was--an offer others accepted, in violation of military rules.


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