Sentence examples for had been captive from inspiring English sources

And because the dolphins had been captive their entire lives, they couldn't have picked them up from real whales.

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

The announcement of renewed diplomatic relations was accompanied by the release of Gross and a prisoner exchange of three Cuban intelligence agents who had been jailed in the United States since 1998 for a U.S. intelligence agent who had been captive in Cuba for nearly 20 years.

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.

#1 (Saycon Sengbloh) has been captive so long, kidnapped and raped as they all have been, does not remember her age.

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 a sense, he may have been captive to his early operatic memories, to the lingering Gilded Age milieu in which he got to know the art.

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.

For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre élitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty formulas of intellectual superiority.

Two cat-like mammals, that have been captive bred at a north Cornwall zoo, are being flown back to their natural habitat in Vietnam.