Example sentences for: captors

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

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

  • 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.

  • McCain attributes his survival in prison camp to the fortuitous discovery by his captors that his father was a high-ranking figure in the U.S. military.

  • Later that month, two Saudi jihadists arrested by Bahraini authorities during the threat spike told their captors that their al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan had held celebratory parties over the Cole attack.


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