Sentence examples for like a captive from inspiring English sources

Bored, he paces back and forth like a captive primate.

I'm just feeling like a captive of my stuff.

Did he, as master, feel like a captive?

She looked like a captive barbarian princess in a Roman triumphal procession.

Temple-Inland, the trustee's lawsuit says, operated Guaranty like "a captive finance arm of Temple-Inland's manufacturing operation".

In the general election, though, Goldwater suffered a crushing loss to Lyndon Johnson, partly because Democrats succeeded in making him look like a captive of the loony right.

We met at the museum, which is set in 7,000 acres of forest and trails, and is designed largely for children and families, with indoor exhibitions and animals, like a captive-bred snowy owl.

But far more often I hear that field biologists are more concerned about the opportunities for bears to behave like wild bears in a captive setting.

On the internet, a warning like that guarantees a captive audience a video posted by a user named Takedownman has garnered hundreds of thousands of viewers in three months.

On the internet, a warning like that guarantees a captive audience – a video posted by a user named Takedownman has garnered hundreds of thousands of viewers in three months.

Like Knut, a captive-born and handraised polar bear at the Berlin Zoo, Flocke ("flake" in German) quickly became a media sensation.