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• They could charge a pretty penny as they had a captive audience.From the entry pretty penny
• Register racks at checkout stands offer manufacturers a captive audience for their products in the retailer's store.From the entry captive audience
• Passengers on the plane are a captive audience.From the entry captive audience
• Can we not have a button day 'for all prisoners and captives'?2018, Kate Ariotti, Captive Anzacs, page 101. From the entry button day
• Calloway's story was, why someone so glamourama was riding herd over a posse of captive graffiti artists.2012, Susan Andersen, Bending The Rules, →ISBN. From the entry glamourama
• The officers, hoping to make their troops obey orders, massacred whole prisonfuls of captives.2011, Will Whitaker, The King’s Diamond, HarperPress, →ISBN, page 311. From the entry prisonful
• It was no other than the young woman who cut loose the treebound captive!2004, Zitkala-Sa — Iktomi and the Ducks and Other Sioux Stories. From the entry treebound
• As with other exotic pets, sound husbandry is essential for captive sugar gliders to flourish.2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 510. From the entry sugar glider
• The average life span of the captive hedgie is 3 to 8 years.2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 502. From the entry hedgie
• Both the ocelot mother and margay sire of this little “marlot” were captive bred.2003, “FCF History”, in Feline Conservation Foundation, archived from the original on 09 May 2021. From the entry marlot
• Held captive by society against their own free wills, the precogs are destined to foretell disturbing precrimes.2002, Ethix: The Bulletin of the Institute for Business, Technology & Ethics, Issues 22-38. From the entry precrime
• She became a momentary captive of Campbell's, wondering where was his beakiness, his surliness?2002, Helen Duncan, Kate Rice: Prospector, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry beakiness
• Bank robbers took captive some bank staff after a robbery went wrong.1993, John Sword, Window on Mankind: Evolution and Human Behaviour, page 78. From the entry Helsinki syndrome
• Preventing contact with anyone nonsympathetic to the method of treatment and regimen of the captive populace.1992 February 2, H. Askins, “Unthinkable Discrimination”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5. From the entry nonsympathetic
• Almost from the moment the Soviet empire swallowed the captive nations, the fight against it began.1989 November 21, A[braham] M[ichael] Rosenthal, “ON MY MIND; Helping the Revolution”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry captive nation
• What Latter-day Saint will find the interpretive-ministrational key and gift to liberate these captives for God’s kingdom?1987, Scott Abbott, Steven Epperson, “House of the Temple, House of the Lord: A View from Philadelphia”, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon…. From the entry ministrational
• Strong and brave warriors could have concubines from among their kalgi, that is, female war captives.1984, Richard Austin Pierce, Notes on the Islands of the Unalashka District, page 194. From the entry kalgi
• EDGAR. (Moving blindly, as if playing a game.) Where's my captive Princess?1970, James Saunders, A Scent of Flowers, act I, page 16. From the entry girlmeat
• Few captives could survive the journey from the Sonoran settlements to Seriland—one of the world’s most difficult.1962, Ronald L. Ives, The Legend of the “White Queen” of the Seri, in Western Folklore, Vol. 21, No. 3. From the entry Seriland
• He became a captive of a small raiding party of Crow Indians.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 171. From the entry crow
• A few Christians have been killed, others carried away captive and held to ransom."1931, E. F. E. Wigram, “The Fukien Diocese and Mission”, in Weapons that Win: Being the C. M. S. Story of the Year, 1930-31, London…. From the entry Kienyang
• To the picket Private Copper held forth for ten minutes on the life-history of his captive.1904, Rudyard Kipling, “The Comprehension of Private Copper”, in Traffics and Discoveries, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC. From the entry purple patch
• Among those released were two Americans who had been held captive for more than three months: Alex Drueke, a former U.S.2022 September 21, Carly Olson, Dan Bilefsky, “Ten prisoners, including Americans, have been released as part of a Russia-Ukraine…. From the entry tour
• Hours later, Private Chapman awoke to find himself with 10 other captives, hunched on the dirt floor of a farmhouse.2018 November 11, Hampton Sides, “Remembering the Forgotten War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry Kanggye
• It was natural for the Roman slaveowners to employ these captives in activities that would benefit from their knowledge and skills.2017 September 5, Peter Temin, The Roman Market Economy, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry slaveowner
• Typically delivered on a date, at a bus stop, or in other situations where the audience is captive.2015, Joe Biel, Elly Blue, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, page 19. From the entry depthy
• She particularly does not overscent herself if she is going to be in a confined space with captive companions.2012, Kay West, chapter 11, in How to Raise a Lady,, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, page 120. From the entry overscent
• Once the prey has been thoroughly stuck, the victorious dismalite gloatingly crawls out to further torment its helpless captive.2012, Richard Faulk, Gross America: Your Coast-to-Coast Guide to All Things Gross (ebook), Penguin Publishing Group, page 145. From the entry dismalite
• During drive time, radio stations have a captive audience.2007, Chris Schneider, Starting Your Career in Broadcasting page 212. From the entry drive time
• However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.2007, Joanna Blake, Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN. From the entry rehabilitant
• Davis was familiar with the Helsinki Syndrome, where hostages were brainwashed into thinking of their captives as friends.1999, Lee Butcher, Sex, Money and Murder in Daytona Beach, page 342. From the entry Helsinki syndrome
• Captive rowlocks keep the oars in the boat while you 're rowing and discourage lighthanded hardware seekers when you go ashore.1997 January, Time Carr, “Choosing A Dinghy -- The Hard Way”, in Cruising World. From the entry light-handed
• One night the King, who lived in the city to which the captives had been brought, could not sleep.1987, Peninnah Schram, “The Scroll of Bereshit”, in Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another, Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc.…. From the entry potionmaker
• Children, born of such captives were not accounted as kalgi.1984, Richard Austin Pierce, Notes on the Islands of the Unalashka District, page 194. From the entry kalgi
• Fortunately — very fortunately — the American people have a happy alternative to this bankrupt Republican campaign and its captive candidate.1952, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 807. From the entry fortunately
• Lastly, in this suffrage, we intercede for prisoners and captives; we "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them."1904, John Newton McCormick, The litany and the life: a series of studies in the litany ..., page 222. From the entry suffrage
• “If that is true she would be the first case I have ever heard of, as most female captives are misused by the entire tribe.”2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 326. From the entry misuse
• And I'll let you go on Christmas." Little did she know she would be held captive in his Cleveland home for more than ten years.2013 November 6, Stephanie Slifer, “Michelle Knight, Cleveland kidnapping survivor, details horrific circumstances inside Ariel Castro's…. From the entry little did one know
• A captive, located in a qualified treaty country with an anticonduit provision, may reinsure with another reinsurer located in a taxable country.2010, Brian Dooley, International Taxation in America. From the entry anticonduit

Meaning of captive

1. noun One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
2. noun One held prisoner.
3. noun One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.

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Questions about captive in a sentence

How do you use captive in a sentence?

Captive is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “They could charge a pretty penny as they had a captive audience.”

What is a short sentence with captive?

“captive chains; captive hours”

What does captive mean?

Captive means one who has been captured or is otherwise confined.