Sentence examples for held captive with from inspiring English sources
Scores of foreign and local Ukrainian journalists are being attacked, brutalised and held captive with increasing intensity.
Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario were held captive with two other journalists and brutalized last month in Libya.
Bushra, then 18, was taken to a strange city and held captive with her 14-year-old sister.
More than 50 vessels, from fishing trawlers and traditional wooden dhows to giant freighters and oil tankers, are currently being held captive, with more than 800 hostages, according to Ecoterra International, a nonprofit maritime group that monitors pirate attacks.
Donoghue has created one of the pure triumphs of recent fiction: an ebullient child narrator, held captive with his mother in an 11-by-11-foot 11-by-11-foot 11-by-11-foot 11-by-11-footy, often complicated space between closeness and autonomy.
He was pelted with bags of urine by outraged prisoners who objected to his camera, held captive with a knife at his throat, and had to flee another prison fast after an Italian inmate warned him he was in danger.
She turned instead to people smugglers, who took her to Aleppo, where she was held captive along with her children.
Now, she's back in contention for Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestseller about a young boy held captive – along with his mother – for his entire life.
The parents of a Canadian man who was held captive along with his family by the Taliban in Afghanistan have spoken of the moment that they talked to their son for the first time in five years.
Such treatment of the Christians for refusals by the girls is also confirmed in the accounts of British officer James Scurry, who was held captive along with the Mangalorean Catholics.
For the uninitiated, the 336 page and the 11 hour audiobook is called Room and not THE Room because the first-person narrator is a five year old boy and that's what he calls the 11' by 11' room where he was born, raised and held captive along with his mother by a kidnapper.
