Sentence examples for have been captives from inspiring English sources

The frogs have been captives for five or six years, and frogs do not live forever.

They appear to have been captives of al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the al-Nusra Front.

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.

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

"Tilikum, Katina, Kasatka, Ulises and Corky have been captive and subjected to treatment that we feel is slavery," Kerr said.

Here are those still held, listed by how long they have been captive: 1. Terry A. Anderson, 42, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press.

The best non-fiction of my year has been Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 by Linda Colley Jonathan Capee).

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