Example sentences for: captivity

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

  • 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).

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

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

  • He is the only man in captivity who could go to Paris 12 times and Peking once and no one knew it except possibly a couple of pretty girls.

  • 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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