We found 25 examples of how to use captive in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 25.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | He fell captive to her charms. | |
| 2. | Greece, conquered, took captive her savage conqueror. | |
| 3. | Tom is still being held captive. | |
| 4. | The captive escaped in the dark of the night. | |
| 5. | Her tears and her prayers echoed through the dark void that surrounded the tormented captive soul. | |
| 6. | In living through these uncertain times, it is necessary to be flexible and not be a captive to traditional values. | |
| 7. | Tom has been taken captive. | |
| 8. | Tom is being held captive. | |
| 9. | Tom wanted to free the captive dogs. | |
| 10. | Tom was held captive for almost a year. | |
| 11. | Sami held Layla captive in her apartment. | |
| 12. | Sami held Layla captive. | |
| 13. | Sami was able to direct the police to exactly where he had been held captive. | |
| 14. | "Lo, now to Priam, with exulting cries, / the Dardan shepherds drag a youth unknown, / with hands fast pinioned, and in captive guise. / Caught on the way, by cunning of his own, / this end to compass, and betray the town. / Prepared for either venture, void or fear, / the crafty purpose of his mind to crown, / or meet sure death." | |
| 15. | "Around, from far and near, / the Trojans throng, and vie the captive youth to jeer." | |
| 16. | "Touched by his tearful plea, / we asked his race, what tidings, good or ill, / he brings, for hope, perchance, may cheer a captive still." | |
| 17. | "Priam bids the cords unbind, / and thus with friendly words the captive cheers:" | |
| 18. | Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed." | |
| 19. | And their children and wives they took captive. | |
| 20. | And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle. | |
| 21. | An estimated 10,000 Yazidis were killed or kidnapped by Islamic State in 2014. Women and girls were forced into slavery, and suffered horrific sexual and physical abuse. Several members of the choir that traveled to London were held captive. | |
| 22. | Tom holds several people captive. | |
| 23. | For the Fourth Men, the Great Brains, there was no possible life but the life of intellect; and the life of intellect had become barren. Evidently something more than mere bulk of brain was needed for the solving of the deeper intellectual problems. They must, therefore, somehow create a new brain-quality, or organic formation of brain, capable of a mode of vision or insight impossible in their present state. They must learn somehow to remake their own brain-tissues upon a new plan. With this aim, and partly through unwitting jealousy of the natural and more balanced species which had created them, they began to use their captive specimens of that species for a great new enterprise of research into the nature of human braintissue. | |
| 24. | Tom's opinion on little cute squirrels changed after they had captured, tortured and held him captive for three weeks in a dark narrow hollow. | |
| 25. | Yanni and Skura were both held captive for fourteen days. |