Sentencedict.com
 Directly to word page Vague search(google)
Home > Captive in a sentence

Captive in a sentence

  up(2)  down(5)
Sentence count:159+5Posted:2017-03-16Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: freeSimilar words: captivatecaptivationcaptivatingadaptivecaptioncaptiousreceptivedeceptiveMeaning: ['kæptɪv]  n. 1. a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war 2. an animal that is confined 3. a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion. adj. 1. in captivity 2. giving or marked by complete attention to. 
Random good picture Not show
61 A gun's been recovered after the latest attack, in which a store manager was held captive for six hours.
62 Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.
63 What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me?
64 The San Francisco Zoo has the largest and most successful captive breeding program for bald eagles in the nation, Aikin said.
65 Several tourists were being held captive by rebels in Kashmir.
66 It was like the first stage of the revolution, i. e., taking the king captive.
67 There lay Dineh, captive, in a torpor, while his enemies decided how to put him to death.
68 For that reason, modern nation-states are free to unleash devastating reprisals against their captive nations who attempt liberation.
69 They include captive monsters goaded into fighting and monsters which have been magically bound by spells of obedience.
70 My abductors made me sign all the checks in my checkbook and kept me captive while they cashed them.
71 Just how essential this help can be was documented over 18 years by a researcher studying these animals in a captive environment.
72 This has been demonstrated by experiments with captive starlings, using the technique of displacing the sun's image with mirrors.
73 The captive princess caught their attention and they looked curiously at her.
73 Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
74 He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
75 Within its wide and crumbly confinement, the virgin Missouri writhed like a captive snake.
76 A week before the election a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front had taken several nuns captive.
77 She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since.
78 He searched the recumbent form of his captive roughly and, straightening, tossed a slim package to Alexei.
79 Many education officials derided the effort as exploitation of a captive youth audience.
80 The tame elephants manoeuvre a captive into position, acting rather like gaolers.
81 The logic of global production is again operating, but through transfer pricing and the use of captive suppliers.
82 Often, they said, a captive woman would try to attach herself to one leader to avoid repeated gang rape.
83 She liked nothing more than a captive audience.
84 To take captive, as by force or craft; seize.
85 Because, captain, basically be I think hold captive it.
86 The captive was whooped and jeered.
87 Buried the gun, possum, be captured next captive.
88 The Cheyenne warriors traded their captive for two rifles.
89 Captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers.
90 T wo men are flying in a captive balloon.
More similar words: captivatecaptivationcaptivatingadaptivecaptioncaptiousreceptivedeceptivepreemptivecapturecaptainaptitudeaptitude testnativevotiveactivemotivefurtiverelativecreativesedativepunitivefugitiveelectiveactivelydeductiveincentiveformativepositiveputative
Total 159, 30 Per page  3/6  «first  pre  next  last»  goto
Leave a comment
Welcome to leave a comment about this page!
Your name:
Latest commentsInto the comment page>>
More words