Sentence examples for like captives from inspiring English sources
Emergency room bills are notoriously high and perplexing; patients often are left feeling like captives who have few alternatives.
They're naked and massed against the circus tent side by side, looking more like captives in some grim animal lockdown — which is, of course, what they are.
The majority of these elephants are under 12 years old, which means they will spend the next 50 years feeling like captives.
Would everyone there seem like captives; would they be unhappy?
Similarly, the phylogenetic proximity of the second (wolf-like) captive red wolf Y chromosome haplotype H1 to the two found in Mexican wolves could indicate that it introgressed into the red wolf population, or that H1 represents an authentic red wolf lineage that is similar to the Mexican wolf haplotypes at the studied Y chromosome microsatellites (Table 4).
Pretty much every show you attend on Broadway these days ends with people jumping to their feet and beating their flippers together like captive sea lions whose zookeeper has arrived with a bucket of fish.
Pretty much every show you attend on Broadway these days ends with people jumping to their feet and beating their flippers together like captive sea lions when the zookeeper arrives with a bucket of fish.
Scattering briefly to all corners like captive mice who've just been released at a crossroads, they eventually reconvened to engage in a well-earned orgy of back-slapping and self-congratulation.
In a statement, Nada Culver, senior director of policy and planning at The Wilderness Society, called the recommendations "a sideways attempt to abandon habitat protection for unfettered oil and gas development and in favor of discredited, narrow tools like captive breeding and population targets".
Like captive breeding programs for other species, artificial propagation programs for salmonids aim to reduce mortality at one or more life stages.
Called Iconographies #20, like with Captives, it recontextulizes classical art, reformatting and exploring it through generative procedures and formulations. .
