Sentence examples for a captive of from inspiring English sources

Warner was also a captive of his own background.

I'm just feeling like a captive of my stuff.

He spent five years as a captive of the Soviets.

Yet now, McCain has become a captive of that same culture war.

Some state examiners complain, though, that Mr. Hawke is a captive of the industry he regulates.

President Romney will be as much a captive of this Republican Washington as its leader.

At least one is believed to be a captive of Mr. Assad's intelligence services.

As a teenager in the mid-1990s, she became a captive of the domestic sex trade.

The interesting story, then, is not that Mr. Bush is a captive of the religious right, but that his people are striving to make the religious right a captive of the Republican Party.

He labeled Ms. O'Brien, also from a well-known political family, a captive of the political establishment.

But Mr. Ripp, 56, remains a captive of the merger, despite having had no role in it.