Example sentences for: captivity

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

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

  • There are now 80 living specimen in captivity at Hope Zoo in Jamaica.

  • At Randolph Community College in Archdale, N.C., members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have been teaching, as the Associated Press reported, that "most slaves were happy in captivity and that many served as loyal Southern soldiers."

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


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