Sentence examples for held me captive from inspiring English sources

Throughout elementary school, I suffered nightmares in which those toothy monsters held me captive or threatened to murder my family if I did not come up with an exorbitantly large ransom (usually fifty dollars).

The week before, Bob Hope had entertained the troops from the stage, and the week before that we'd sat through an evening of Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, featuring among other warblers Ish Kabibble and Wee Bonnie Baker, whose infantile voice in a song called "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" was one of many dim-witted numbers that had held me captive during my pubescence.

It was the food that held me captive.

The strings were the emotions and thoughts that held me captive.

On one hand I had a very adventurous spirit, on the other hand a shyness that held me captive.

Looking around and seeing no form of gay organization on my campus held me captive in the closet for some time.

Eva, Lili tells Nick, is "holding me captive here" in the family summer house.

"And now she's holding me captive here," she says, hardly needing to underscore the hint that she awaits a savior.

Chief songwriter and drummer Alex Neilson has a background in free jazz and improvised music; he recently quipped to the Wire that "it's the 1950s and 1450s that hold me captive at the moment".

Was I allowing fear and an unwillingness to trust hold me captive in the safety of a world that includes only me and my son?

The problem in my own town involved running into parents at the end of every aisle who wanted to tell me how smart their children were, and to hold me captive for lots and lots of minutes, sometimes numerous times as we successively ran into each other in aisle after aisle.