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How to use captive in a sentence

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For every year he is held captive he tattoos the back of his hand with a line.
The last known captive thyacline, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, died in 1936 at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, Australia.
The promise of reaching a captive, targeted audience eventually made converts, though.
It is gravitationally captive to the giant ball of ringed gases that is Saturn.
They observed Asian elephants, both wild and captive, tearing off leafy side branches from trees or from unwieldy limbs already on the ground.
The problem is places where there's a captive audience and no one is available to respond to requests, like the Laundromat or the airport.
Theseus defeated the Amazons in battle and took one of their captive leaders as his wife or concubine.
Composure slowly seeped back into the aggressive man, enabling him to gently release his captive from his tight and trembling grasps.
Thanks in part to fat fees from those captive funds and betting its own capital and trading prowess, the bank did very nicely thank you.
An interactive exhibition which will captive inquiring minds with hands of fun and equipment to test and explore the wonders of science.
Before the captive kiwi were released the iconic birds had been extinct in the southern North Island for well over a century.
Nika stood up as her captive yanked and strained at the glittering strand that leashed her, shoulders bunching and teeth bared.
We pass under the Bridge of Sighs, which leads into the old prisons where Casanova was once held captive.
The wind chill, however, is affecting some captive birds from the southern hemisphere which can have icicles forming on their beaks.
Thanks to captive breeding, today there are over 300 whooping cranes, with 180 living in the wild.
Hence, perhaps, her later insistence on singing to the captive audiences at her poetry readings.
The man brought the whip across her shoulders, eliciting another cry of pain from his captive.
Despite the fact that his father was a landowner, town councillor, and clergyman we hear of no attempt to rescue or ransom the captive.
They do, however, represent a captive audience and, what is more, an audience in a highly receptive frame of mind.
One captive was extremely active, continuously moving about its enclosure in search of food.
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