Example sentences for: captors

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

  • Although the hijackers slit the throat of one passenger in private, they did not disclose this murder to the other passengers, who at times joked and conversed with their captors.

  • He resisted his captors alone and endured years in solitary confinement.

  • The LAT reports that former President Jimmy Carter has been lobbying President Clinton to pardon Patty Hearst, the newspaper-magnate scion who in 1974 was famously kidnapped and "brainwashed" into robbing a bank with her captors (the "Symbionese Liberation Army").

  • He recalls his Vietnamese captors as "goddamn gooks," tells gay jokes, and reminds reporters that he once called Chelsea Clinton ugly.

  • Former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot died . According to his wife and Cambodian captors, he died of heart failure in his sleep.


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