Sentence examples for been captives for from inspiring English sources

The frogs have been captives for five or six years, and frogs do not live forever.

I have been captive for seven months and my situation is not good.

The FARC holds dozens of hostages in jungle jails; some have been captive for more than a decade.

In April, FARC released the last group of soldiers and police officers it held, some of whom had been captive for 14 years.

They also promised to free the ten remaining members of Colombian security forces they hold as "prisoners of war", some of whom have been captive for as long as 14 years.

"He's been captive for [nearly] five years; it's showing".

The majority of captive wild boar used in this study represent specimens from the historic livestock garden of the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), where they had been captive for at least three generations.

"I don't want to be captive for checking buzzes," Gu says.

Researchers working with 10 gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) who were captive for a year have now reported that the animals including the female seal pictured above, named Janice can learn to associate the pings with food.

International experts believe that rare species such as earless monitor lizards could not be captive-bred for sale in trade fairs.

All animals in this study were captive bred for research purposes.