Sentence examples for a captive listener from inspiring English sources

You're not there for a free chat session with a captive listener.

Inviting him into her carriage for the journey to London, she pleaded her husband's case for three hours to her captive listener.

In reviewing the inconveniences that subway performing visits on the performer, did Mr. Kennedy stop to consider the inconveniences that the performer visits upon his captive listeners?

India, he assured his young listener, Gandhy, was "a captive market to sell frames".

Even though the speech was given to a captive audience in Mekele, the clear impression that is created for the listener is that the people of Tigray will be doing the winnowing of the useless "chaff" from the valuable "wheat".

"It was a captive audience.

Landlords exploit a captive audience".

Now that's a captive audience.

And Bambaataa had a captive audience".

The consumer was a captive audience.

We are a captive economy.