Sentence examples for a captive for from inspiring English sources

Schottenheimer is clearly a captive, for good or ill, of tendencies and probabilities — and they mostly pay off.

Having been a captive for most of his time in Syria, Jejoen knew nothing of the country's geography, so Dimitri helped plan his route.

Rohde has meanwhile been reunited with his wife; they have been married for nine months, and he has been a captive for seven of them.

In the United States, we've had 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, who was held for nine months, and 15-year-old Shawn Hornbeck, a captive for four years.

What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?'" Steinem said, to laughter from the audience.

At that point, the hostage, Linda Norgrove, the regional director for a jobs program financed by the United States Agency for International Development, had been a captive for two weeks.

Romanos remained a captive of the Sultan for a week.

You are in need of a captive audience, for example: for people who love a certain kind of product.

They will not insist - as the commission had proposed - that drug companies must show compelling reasons for using a captive population for their testing.

The workplace has been described as an advantageous site for health promotion, offering a captive audience for a large part of the week and the support of peers and colleagues [ 40, 41].

He pauses and opts for the smart-aleck answer: "A captive audience for an hour a week".