Sentence examples for she was held captive from inspiring English sources

For six years she was held captive and forced to marry a senior rebel commander.

Ms Knight was impregnated four times during the 11 years she was held captive.

She was then driven almost 350 miles to the bunker in Kristianstad, where she was held captive for six days.

She turned instead to people smugglers, who took her to Aleppo, where she was held captive along with her children.

A Brooklyn woman said she was held captive for three years in Pakistan by relatives who threatened to kill her if she did not marry a Pakistani man.

The arranged marriage had already cleaved the family in two: on one side was a Brooklyn-born bride, in hiding after she escaped her new husband's home in Pakistan, where she said she was held captive by her relatives.

It's no easy task, especially when she is held captive by a production as muddled as American Ballet Theater's busy, dramaturge-heavy version of "The Sleeping Beauty".

Similarly, there is a life-affirming birth at the end of "The Tax Inspector" though the title character delivers her child in a dank, filthy basement where she is held captive by a member of the comically grotesque Catchprice family.

Her mother and brother die while she's held captive by the family that orchestrated it.

Smart was held captive for nine months, during which time she was threatened and sexually abused.

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, 28, was held captive for almost five years.