How to Use captivity in a Sentence

captivity

noun

• The prisoners were released from captivity.
• In Thailand there are now more elephants in captivity than in the wild.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
• On average, milk snakes can live from 12 to 20 years in the wild and even longer in captivity.
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Oct. 2021
• Their son died in captivity shortly afterward at the age of 10.
  — CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• She is held in captivity in the midst of a training camp by Nur, a young fighter, wife to a soldier of the Caliphate.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
• Why do some animals suffer mental health issues when living in captivity?
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• This cub will likely stay in captivity due to its condition, according to officials.
  — John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
• Lowell lived in captivity at the hotel in room 315 working as a prostitute.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
• After 20 days of captivity, Bordeau said they were abruptly released in the middle of the night.
  — Aicha El Hammar Castano and Guy Davies, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2021
• The hostages from Christian Aid Ministries spent their sixth day in captivity on Thursday.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
• During their last five days in captivity, the victims, guarded by four or five people in shifts, received little food to eat to increase the pressure on them, Fr.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• On Sunday, the hostages, five of them children, remained in captivity, their whereabouts and identities unknown to the public.
  — New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• They were held in captivity for more than a year by a jihadist group called Abu Sayyaf, which demanded $1 million in ransom for the Americans.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• She was held in captivity and raped by Mitchell for nine months, before being rescued by police officers on a street in Sandy, Utah, about 20 miles from her home.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Birds raised in captivity and released to the wild were doomed to fail.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
• On that day, which would have been his 117th in captivity, Mills heard a noise in the distance that sounded like a tank.
  — al, 24 Apr. 2022
• Freedom is at the heart of this novel, and with that, captivity.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
• The orca, now believed to be around 57, is the oldest in captivity.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• This was no solace for Wado, who lived in a cold tent for part of his captivity.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The species reached a total population — in the wild and in captivity — of about 475 this spring.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• There are more than 100 hostages still held in captivity.
  — Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• Coral only spawn once a year, and very rarely in captivity.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2021
• Those were older men, and, in this case, this week, younger people, but all of them alive for months in Hamas captivity.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2024
• The race to free Washington’s last orca in captivity is on the verge of a breakthrough.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• On the fourth day of her captivity, Kozakiewicz was convinced Tyree would kill her.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
• Gibbons in captivity have hung pieces of rope or blanket on their cages to make swings.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• To this day, Smart said her parents have not asked her for details about her time in captivity.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 1 June 2022
• The act is named for a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007 and is believed to have died while in captivity.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Today, there are more than 500 of these massive birds living in both captivity and the wild.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• Fifty-five days into her captivity, Mia was freed in a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024