Sentence examples for decades in captivity from inspiring English sources
"We have lived for decades in captivity," said Marta Rodríguez, 65, a retired office manager who was waiting to pick up a tourist visa from the United States Interests Section in Havana.
But that option is fraught with difficulties, not least whether Tilikum would cope with the wild after three decades in captivity, and whether the government of Iceland would welcome back a killer whale with his record.
The prison term left Manning facing decades in captivity, a grim prospect starkly compounded by the fact that she would be in a male-only institution even though since childhood she had privately identified as a woman.
After two decades in captivity, Brook began to slow down, the aquarium's curator, Brett Long, said.
Lions can live up to 14 years in the wild and up to three decades in captivity.
Originally captured as a calf in India in 1966, Misty spent her first decade in captivity with a number of American circuses and finally ended up in the early 80's at a wild-animal attraction known as Li on Country Safari in Irvine, Calif.
A decade in captivity without a male may have left them unable to conceive.
After nearly a decade in captivity, the couple finally made their break in 1986, during a trip to Vienna, where they managed to obtain political asylum from the US.
Directed by the exacting helmer behind "Shame" and "Hunger," the film is of course a fact-based story about the free man Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who spent more than a decade in captivity on plantations in the antebellum South after being kidnapped from his home in upstate New York.
Fortun Garcés, nicknamed al-Anqar by the Muslims because he was one-eyed, was taken to Córdoba where he was detained for two decades in gilded captivity.
One night, after guzzling 10 beers for courage, he abandoned his sense of duty and freedom as he knew it to stumble across the border into North Korea, a desperate midnight maneuver that led to four lost decades in communist captivity.
