Sentence examples for be captives from inspiring English sources

Passengers need not be captives, he declared - particularly "executives with paperwork".

American officials initially considered a raid by U.S. Special Forces soldiers, but called it off over concerns that the family might not, in fact, be captives.

Could music clubs finally be acknowledging that audiences might not be captives but discerning diners with a taste for better than Bud?

Adding to everyone's fears and worries, four of our colleagues and friends who were in Ajdabiya on Tuesday — New York Times reporters Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, Lynsey Addario, and Tyler Hicks — vanished from sight; at the present moment, without word of their whereabouts, they are presumed to be captives of Qaddafi's forces.

Many reviewers still seem to be captives of a notion that only the vain, or those brainwashed by society to hate their bodies, want to have aesthetic surgery -- or that any procedure that is not "corrective" in their eyes (fixing a big nose or a weak chin, for instance) is the fulfillment of some sort of Frankenstein dream.

Just as it can be free in captivity, it can also be captive in freedom.

Then we won't have to be captive -- I mean lingering -- customers.

We cannot allow our country or our political system to be captive to special interests.

They are captives, understandably, of their experience.

If you lot are captives, who are your jailers?

Not only are we not masters of our fate; we are captives of biological determinism.