Sentence examples for captors when from inspiring English sources

The story concerns a group of American POWs aboard a Nazi submarine who are forced to help their captors when the vessel is struck by disaster.

It was Denton who provided the first direct evidence of torture by his captors when, apparently unbeknownst to them, he blinked his message in Morse code in a 1966 interview done with him in captivity.

Sebastian Junger begins his new book, "Tribe," with an observation about a peculiar phenomenon in frontier America: From the late 17th to the late 19th century, hundreds of white settlers were seized by Indians, and almost all chose to remain with their captors when offered a chance to return to their families.

In Dan Brown's best-selling intellectual potboiler, "The Da Vinci Code," Sophie Neveu, fetching young cryptographer for the Paris police, and Robert Langdon, suave internationally acclaimed expert on religious symbology, are running through the deserted halls of the Louvre fleeing their would-be captors when Langdon, in one of the novel's typically awkward moments, pauses to reminisce.

His brother and sister starved to death and he had to attend daily executions at the camp before he finally fled his captors when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in 1979.

Joshua Boyle, the Canadian citizen who spent five years as a prisoner of the Taliban, didn't believe his captors when they told him who the new United States president was.

Rapunzel, meanwhile, gives herself away to her captor when – after having a "merry time" in the tower with her prince - she asks: "Tell me, Mother Gothel, why are my clothes becoming too tight?

Their captors fled when police arrived.

Mr. Williams declined to discuss his feelings for his captors, saying, "When I get back to the States, I'll talk about it".

Mr. Olivetto, shaken and showing signs of exhaustion, was found in the deserted home on Kansas Street in Brooklin, a residential and commercial district of São Paulo, after some his captors fled when they learned of the earlier raid on their associates.

As far as they know, prosecutors declined to press charges against the young men they consider their daughter's captors, even when Jenny returned home drug-addled and teary and confessed she'd been in a sexual relationship with a gang member several years her senior.