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Example sentences for: captivity
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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.