Sentence examples for being captive from inspiring English sources
But being captive to industry brings its own problems.
What's so liberating about Radiohole, paradoxically enough, is its awareness of being captive to its own limitations.
If the cities were captive to the Democratic Party, the suburbs would insist on being captive to the Republicans.
He disqualified even tribal and folk artists, and spirited amateurs like Henri Rousseau, for being captive to one tradition or another.
To me, being captive in a room with a practicing mandolin player would be far worse than being in one in which the news was on TV, though much would depend of course on the skill of the mandolin player.
The protest began with oil, but it also reflected notions of community, family and the countryside way of life versus a government accused of being captive to an urban elite.
The beetles are currently being captive-bred elsewhere but we are discussing the possibility of starting a breeding unit within our Animal Management Centre before too long.
"Being captive-bred they can't ever be released into the wild, which I would rather see, of course," Lowing explains to me.
Just as it can be free in captivity, it can also be captive in freedom.
Effectively, they're captive customers.
