This page shows Captive in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like confined or animal. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Captive in a sentence
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Captive meaning
- One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
- One held prisoner.
- One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
Synonyms of Captive
Example sentences (20)
Göbel had in a captive-audience meeting about a that Mercedes had come here for the “Alabama discount”: low wages.
Azaad the goes onto become the jailer of the same penitentiary which once held Deepika captive during her trial.
It makes logical sense, given that Nyx, the personification of night and darkness, is currently held captive by Chronos.
German zoo sparks outrage with plans to cull some of its 45-strong tribe of baboons and feed them to captive.
However, she's being held captive by a dangerous group of gangsters that must be taken down to get her back.
Its members have also been sharing footage online of captive civilians and dead bodies being paraded around in the street.
Marineland says the last captive orca in Canada died Thursday at the Niagara Falls-based tourist attraction.
The Lord pulled up a chair, and indicated that Bradley should sit down, knee to knee with the captive woman.
In it, an entomologist is subjected to severe torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the six hostages whose remains had been retrieved were alive when taken captive.
For the next four years, Kay endured life as an “MIA wife” not knowing if Bill was alive and captive in a POW camp, or worse.
Gig Harbor Police Chief Kelly Busey said the woman had been abducted days earlier and held captive by David Paul Ruffier, 66.
A slew of Democrats and Republicans wore pins and stickers in honor of the Israeli hostages still being held captive in Gaza.
There are a couple of captive thumbscrews on both of the side panels, but that’s all you need to undo to get into the machine.
THE elderly father and sister of an Irishman who is being held captive in Iran will attend a vigil organised in his name today.
The three were taken captive Feb. 19 while conducting fieldwork at Mount Bosavi in the wilds of the South Pacific island nation.
And a UC Berkeley faculty member went on an anti-Israel rant for 18 minutes, with roughly 1,000 freshmen as his captive audience.
I would not expect that process to happen overnight, so investors in Emerge ETFs may be held captive for a while longer,” he said.
It's a particularly unusual film, centering on an entomologist who gets held captive by the inhabitants of a small seaside village.
Emmerdale fans are convinced they've rumbled Jade's 'true' identity and reckon she knows where Rebecca White is being held captive.
Common combinations with captive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- held captive 57×
- captive by 24×
- taken captive 16×
- captive in 16×
- captive and 13×
- captive audience 13×
- captive for 12×
- of captive 10×
- for captive 6×
- the captive 5×
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