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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. 
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121 Rebels in Liberia have released four foreigners after holding them captive for a week.
122 Neighbour hears voice, come help sb to get over his worries, right now this female " hero " skill back up, single-handed hold bastinado, shout an order " captive " fast from climb below the bed.
123 'Does it mean a captive , or a place of captivity?
124 The aliens take him to their zoo, where he will be held captive in an exact duplicate of his apartment.
125 The stranded drivers, who spend their time sleeping, walking around, or playing cards and chess, are a captive market, and the local entrepreneurs are keen to take advantage.
126 Although many are seeing cancellations by guests who never arrived, in most cases those losses have been more than made up for by a captive market of travelers with no place to go.
127 The picture gave rise to speculation that the three were still alive and being held captive.
128 The high polymorphism of MHC genes in Chinese alligator would be of great benefit to genetic conservation in the captive population of Chinese alligator.
129 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
130 Some balloonists talked of using captive ', ballons from ships.
131 You saw an example of command substitution in Listing 9 when we created a captive tab character.
132 The captive captivated by the apt adaptation rappe inbsp ; the cavity with rapture.
133 In Listing 9 we create a captive tab character using command substitution and then create a very small shell script containing two cat commands,(Sentencedict.com ) which each read from a here-document.
134 Bee breeders send them in a cage to beekeepers, who place the captive in a queenless hive.
135 Press Gang : Convert an unskilled captive to a pirate of rather inferior quality.
136 In 24: "There will be great distress on earth and wrath, they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captive among all nations.
137 However, with the increased number of captive bred Harris and Redtail hawks available today at very modest prices, the Buzzard is now being overlooked.
138 Although the captive Chinese alligator populations have been greatly developed in recent years, there has been genetic depression in the filial generation because of the founder effect.
139 It's not quite a captive market, but definitely one that's tied into protecting the value of its original capital investment.
140 But it borrows cheaply, partly because the pension fund is a captive buyer.
141 Liddell said the lack of a captive finance company had cost GM sales,(sentencedict.com) particularly with less credit-worthy buyers.
142 Scientists are studying wild and captive dolphins to decipher their secret language.
143 Device and wallplate mounting screws are captive, speeding installation time.
144 In truly captive markets, quantity delivered might be more important than relevance or quality.
145 A captive wildebeest calf was inoculated with virulent bovine blood.
146 Free amino acid contents were measured in 20 milk samples of 8 captive giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca using high performance liquid chromatography .
147 Domesticated and captive animals have their rights restricted even further.
148 We conducted the digestive tract anatomy with 5 Crested Ibis which are captive -breeding in Beijing Zoological Garden.
149 Noa, Teek and Wicket snuck into the Marauder castle to free Cindel and the captive Ewoks.
150 Eight months later, they executed their royal captive, and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king.
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