Example sentences for: captured

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

  • A few carp about the film's cloying, overt patriotism--and the avoidance of the politics and protests that surrounded the war--with the most vocal dissenters saying it "restart[s] the John Wayne-ing of Vietnam" (Michael Atkinson, the Village Voice ). For most, though, the stories, told by some 20 captured airmen, speak eloquently and powerfully.

  • Soon after agents had injected a poison into their target, they were captured by Jordanian police.

  • 25% OF CARRIER ROUTE VOLUME CAPTURED

  • A decade ago, when the contras and Sandinistas were willing proxies for the final great showdown of the Cold War, a Daniel Ortega press conference could easily draw 100 foreign reporters--double that if he had a captured American spy or some other bauble to show off.

  • The Christians in the north, seeing the enemy weakened and divided, captured the taifa of Toledo.


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