Sentence examples for captives me from inspiring English sources

"His story is one of perseverance and faith without compromise and that's what captives me," Medina said.

He had a captive audience: me.

Birds of no nation Are all captive Like me With no voice for singing.

Was I allowing fear and an unwillingness to trust hold me captive in the safety of a world that includes only me and my son?

My environment (home, community, workplace, church) are hidden in my soul to hide a stronger desire, the layers accumulates in my inner sense... a state of fear holds me over that I may not be able to control and keeps me captive.

"The story quickly took me captive," he wrote.

Eva, Lili tells Nick, is "holding me captive here" in the family summer house.

I looked at it: it was already 2. My mind had apparently kept me captive in bed for two hours.

"And now she's holding me captive here," she says, hardly needing to underscore the hint that she awaits a savior.

Throughout elementary school, I suffered nightmares in which those toothy monsters held me captive or threatened to murder my family if I did not come up with an exorbitantly large ransom (usually fifty dollars).

Chief songwriter and drummer Alex Neilson has a background in free jazz and improvised music; he recently quipped to the Wire that "it's the 1950s and 1450s that hold me captive at the moment".