Sentence examples for were in captivity from inspiring English sources

Their sons were in captivity.

As she was dragged from the hotel Ms. Obeidy screamed that others with her were in captivity.

The parrots involved in this study were wild, meaning they were raised out in the natural world, but they were in captivity.

The North Vietnamese, who referred to their prisoners as their negotiating "pearls," refused throughout the war to provide a complete listing of those who were in captivity.

It's unseemly". He said that several Americans have been taken hostage since Trump became President, and that most of the dozen who were in captivity when he took office remain imprisoned.

Dark tale of murder and marriage proves hard to stomach At the end of the Second World War, many leading Nazis were in captivity, and an American army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas Kelley, was given the job of judging whether they were psychologically fit for trial as well as keeping them physically healthy until that date.

Captive bred ones have been in captivity for many generations and have become very domesticated.

Worldwide, a few hundred are thought to be in captivity.

Others are in captivity in separatist-run eastern Ukraine.

I had been in captivity for 28 hours.

"And seven of those, David has been in captivity".