Sentence examples for held captured from inspiring English sources

The British also had held captured German soldiers there.

Over night, they had held captured policemen in the metro station before handing them over the Army, who then appeared to let them go.

During the war, the prison held captured fliers, whom the Vietnamese called "air pirates," and on this day one of them had returned, for the first time since his release: John McCain, now a Republican senator from Arizona.

The Union soldier held captured at Centralia was impressed with the control that Anderson exercised over his men.

It also held captured Yugoslav Partisans, Chetniks, sympathizers of the Greek and Albanian resistance movements, and Serb peasants from villages in the Croatian Ustaše-controlled regions of Srem and Kozara, where they had been detained in the Jasenovac concentration camp.

During this time it also held captured Yugoslav Partisans, Chetniks, sympathizers of the Greek and Albanian resistance movements, and Serb peasants from villages in other parts of the NDH.

But the British lacked the forces to hold captured territory.

The island was used to hold captured Africans before their perilous voyage to the Americas.

The main problem was that the Afghan government seemed incapable of holding captured ground.

This formidable fortress – built by French colonialists – was used to hold captured airmen, who nicknamed it the "Hanoi Hilton".

Rebels said the Syrian Army had been using jail cells to hold captured rebel fighters, while gathering troops at the stations to stage attacks or fire from the rooftops.