Wondering how to use Captor in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as person or individual.
Captor meaning
- One who is holding a captive or captives.
- One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
Using Captor
- The main meaning on this page is: One who is holding a captive or captives. | One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
- Useful related words include: capturer, person, individual, someone.
- In the example corpus, captor often appears in combinations such as: her captor, captor currently, his captor.
Context around Captor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Captor
- In this selection, "captor" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, enigmatic, suspected, mystery, forced, anyway and combined stand out and add context to how "captor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about your captor he won and but her captor forced her. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "captor" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with captor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She fled her captor 88 days later. (7 words)
After three months she fell pregnant to her captor. (9 words)
They were handcuffed, but escaped while their captor slept, police said. (11 words)
Nearly a year after an endangered ring-tailed lemur named Isaac was abducted from a Southern California zoo and then abandoned in front of a nearby hotel with a note for the police, his captor was brought to justice, the authorities said this week. (44 words)
In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples. (40 words)
At age 14, Kampusch spent her first night since the day she was snatched above ground - but her captor forced her to lay handcuffed to him in his bed and she wasn't allowed to make a sound. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
At age 14, Kampusch spent her first night since the day she was snatched above ground - but her captor forced her to lay handcuffed to him in his bed and she wasn't allowed to make a sound.
Park's "Oldboy" follows a well-to-do businessman who is inexplicably imprisoned in a hotel room for 15 years, only to be suddenly freed to hunt down his enigmatic captor.
The suspected captor, a 61-year-old man, attempted to escape once he was discovered, but he was restrained and then arrested.
Well, those of us who’ve fallen a little in love with our captor, anyway.
CAPTOR, combined with the BlackBerry Docs Service, checks all the boxes of IT data security, content management, and employee productivity.
Ronnie asks to go to the washer, he says he hasn’t got a pot to piss in and asks him to help a brother out, Keisha’s captor opens the door and lets Ronnie in.
These techniques won’t work as well if the hostage-taker becomes aware of them, but based on available intelligence about your captor, he won’t likely read this.
This mystery captor had a southern accent when TJ overheard him on the phone.
If Doctor Manhattan is in fact the one keeping Veidt prisoner it might explain the detail with which Veidt's prison world has been created, though there are other possibilities as to Veidt's captor.
In January, kidnapping victim Jayme Closs, 13, escaped her captor in the north woods of Wisconsin.
Nearly a year after an endangered ring-tailed lemur named Isaac was abducted from a Southern California zoo and then abandoned in front of a nearby hotel with a note for the police, his captor was brought to justice, the authorities said this week.
She fled her captor 88 days later.
They were handcuffed, but escaped while their captor slept, police said.
After three months she fell pregnant to her captor.
Captor currently has investments in a number of companies and industries, including Millennial Esports in the technology sector, I-5 Holdings in the cannabis sector, and URU Metals in the natural resources sector.
Stockholm syndrome—when a hostage begins to identify with, and feel sympathy for, her captor—is the only possible explanation for the final paragraph of your letter, in which you meekly justify your boyfriend's appalling behavior.
The Jaycee Dugard case garnered national media attention, especially when it was revealed that, despite having the opportunity to flee her captor, Dugard did not reach out to the authorities for help.
We meet Ben and Amber’s new captor, who is none other than resistance leader Mick Fleetwood.
In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples.
Jordanes's date may actually be when she and the Gothic king first became more than captor and captive.
Common combinations with captor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: