Sentence examples for was captive from inspiring English sources

While Winthrop said that Hutchinson was captive about four years, his journal makes clear that her captivity lasted less than three years.

Or, more darkly, that she was captive somewhere, but alive.

During the time I was captive; I was tortured and abused in various forms.

I felt obligated to answer, to be polite and because I was captive in her cab.

To those who thought he was captive to the special interests, he made his case on earmarks and reform.

A rumor arose that the Queen's body was captive to the wiles of her "indoor-outdoor" servant John Brown.

Koshik was captive-born and, as a juvenile, the only elephant for five years at the Everland Zoo in South Korea.

Koshik was captive-born in 1990 and translocated to Everland in 1993, where two female Asian elephants accompanied him until he was five years old.

Just as it can be free in captivity, it can also be captive in freedom.

They're captive".

Effectively, they're captive customers.