Captured is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Captured meaning
That has been captured.
Using Captured
- The main meaning on this page is: That has been captured.
- In the example corpus, captured often appears in combinations such as: captured the, captured by, was captured.
Context around Captured
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Captured
- In this selection, "captured" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perfectly, first, people, weapons, documents and vehicles stand out and add context to how "captured" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 14 people captured at chernobyl, americans were captured or died and footage captured. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "captured" sits close to words such as squad, shape and glass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with captured
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Captured ships The military campaigns in Europe yielded a large number of captured vessels, many of which were under construction. (20 words)
Brown attacked and captured several buildings; he hoped to use the captured weapons to initiate a slave uprising throughout the South. (21 words)
The NBC Sports Chicago broadcast perfectly captured the moment, which perfectly captured the mood of late around the Hawks’ goal-starved forward corps. (23 words)
Turkey's interior minister Suleyman Soylu said Saturday, Oct. 19, that 41 Islamic State members were re-captured in Syria and private IHA news agency said the Turkish nationals among the re-captured were brought over to Turkey in vans. (40 words)
Additional Japanese and renegade Okinawans were captured or surrendered over the next few months raising the total to 16,346. citation This was the first battle in the Pacific War in which thousands of Japanese soldiers surrendered or were captured. (40 words)
It is fairly certain that it was during the Uruk period that Sumerian cities began to make use of slave labor captured from the hill country, and there is ample evidence for captured slaves as workers in the earliest texts. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Captured documents, testimonials of former rebels and Sandinistas, aerial photographs, the tracing of captured weapons back to Nicaragua, and captured vehicles from Nicaragua smuggling weapons were cited as evidence.
While plenty of people have said they've captured proof of the elusive creature, none stands out as much as a wildly viral clip that's making the rounds once again nearly a decade after it was first captured.
Among those returned Friday were 19 Ukrainian fighters from Snake island, 14 people captured at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and 10 fighters from the city of Mariupol that was captured by Russia.
The NBC Sports Chicago broadcast perfectly captured the moment, which perfectly captured the mood of late around the Hawks’ goal-starved forward corps.
Attempts were made to mate Tam with Puntung (a female rhino captured in 2011) and Iman (captured in 2014) under a captive breeding programme but these failed to produce viable pregnancies.
Set during the Cold War, the film follows a lawyer who negotiates with the Soviet Union to trade a captured American pilot for a captured KGB spy.
The snap was captured against the backdrop of an artistic collage and, per the caption, it was captured by Corn Pop Studio, a photography page that features the hottest Instagram influencers and models.
Turkey's interior minister Suleyman Soylu said Saturday, Oct. 19, that 41 Islamic State members were re-captured in Syria and private IHA news agency said the Turkish nationals among the re-captured were brought over to Turkey in vans.
However, authorities are saying Rahim Grant captured the fatal encounter on video and the footage captured on his cellphone tells a different story.
Large alligator captured next to Arkansas highwayApril 20 (UPI) -- An Arkansas man captured video of a large alligator being lassoed and removed from next to a busy stretch of highway.
Mr Kpodo noted that a lot of the debts were not captured, adding that if all the figures were captured, the total debt could be about GH¢170 billion.
Additional Japanese and renegade Okinawans were captured or surrendered over the next few months raising the total to 16,346. citation This was the first battle in the Pacific War in which thousands of Japanese soldiers surrendered or were captured.
Also, several games include the notion of capturing holes, and thus all seeds sown on a captured hole belong at the end of the game to the player who captured it.
Brown attacked and captured several buildings; he hoped to use the captured weapons to initiate a slave uprising throughout the South.
Captured ships The military campaigns in Europe yielded a large number of captured vessels, many of which were under construction.
General Richard Montgomery captured Montreal but a joint attack on Quebec was a total failure; many Americans were captured or died of smallpox.
Iraq put up a massive display of captured Iranian weapons in Baghdad, claiming they "captured" 1,298 tanks, 5,550 recoil-less rifles, and thousands of other weapons.
It is fairly certain that it was during the Uruk period that Sumerian cities began to make use of slave labor captured from the hill country, and there is ample evidence for captured slaves as workers in the earliest texts.
Nazareth was captured on 16 July, and by the time the second truce took effect at 19:00 18 July, the whole Lower Galilee from Haifa Bay to the Sea of Galilee was captured by Israel.
One of the captured "E" flying fortresses was photographed and code named "Tachikawa 105" after its wing span was measured; U. S. aerial photo recon analysts never identified it as a captured B-17 until after the war.
Phrases with captured
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with captured
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- captured the 42×
- captured by 33×
- was captured 27×
- captured in 20×
- captured on 20×
- has captured 11×
- were captured 9×
- been captured 8×
- and captured 7×
- footage captured 6×