Sentence examples for prisoners below from inspiring English sources

While Mr. Lindh was in the basement, Dostum's soldiers threw grenades through ventilation ducts, killing prisoners below.

During the uprising, Mr. Lindh's captors threw grenades and fired rockets down ventilator shafts, killing prisoners below.

The British then secured the Spanish prisoners below deck and made their way back to Port Mahon.

Laforey placed a boarding party aboard Castor, who discovered an officer and 18 British sailors held as prisoners below decks, part of the original crew of the ship.

The available Mauthausen inmate statistics from the spring of 1943, shows that there were 2,400 prisoners below the age of 20, which was 12.8% of the 18,655 population.

These ships sailed with their decks battened down, few lights showing, and the prisoners kept below, in conditions that survivors described as something out of Dante.

And post-9/11, the torture-porn subgenre, spearheaded by Saw and Hostel, placed viewers in the position of prisoners, held below ground, off-radar, subjected to dreadful indignities.

Panic broke out on Généreux, and Lejoille ordered the prisoners confined below and for preparations to be made to abandon Leander and make all speed for Corfu.

He had also captured a number of Dutch ships so that by mid-October 57 of Rainier's crew, more than a fifth, were aboard prizes on the journey back to India, leaving Caroline with just 204 men and a large number of prisoners carried below decks.

There are also drawings here from Stalin-era camps, including one by Evfrosiniia Kersnovskaia, showing naked women being inducted into camp life, stumbling across the snow: "Above our heads the stars twinkled," the former prisoner writes, "below our bare feet lay frozen excrement".

Captain Francis Laforey on Carysfort immediately attacked the larger ship and in an engagement lasting an hour and fifteen minutes successfully forced its captain to surrender, discovering a number of British prisoners of war below decks.