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How to use captor in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Captor means one who is holding a captive or captives. Example: “As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors.”

More sentences with captor

  • As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors.From the entry prisoner of war
  • The hostage was delivered from her captors and thus preserved from any danger.From the entry deliver
  • He did not say it of his own free will, but because his captors coerced him.From the entry free will
  • He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.From the entry treatment
  • His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.From the entry vengeful
  • His agonous torture, at the hands of his captors, seemed to last for ages.From the entry agonous
  • That meant her captor was either an incantor—no other demonic breed possessed and wielded magick—or a practitioner.2019, Suzanne Wright, Shadows, Piatkus, →ISBN. From the entry incantor
  • You're suffering from what humans call Stockholm Syndrome: you have bonded with your captors.2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 259. From the entry Stockholm syndrome
  • This is a variation of the Helsinki Syndrome, in which hostages come to sympathize with their captors.2001, Quinton Skinner, Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?:, page 90. From the entry Helsinki syndrome
  • “The kidnapped, or hostages, begin to identify with their captors."1991, William Carney, Hide and Seek, page 203. From the entry Helsinki syndrome
  • Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic.1979 December, Mark Bowden, “Captivity Pageant”, in The Atlantic, volume 296, number 5, pages 92–97. From the entry gall
  • And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity.1923, Animal World: An Advocate of Humanity, page 33. From the entry cage
  • Defeated and captured rangatira became slaves, but they could regain their former status if they succeeded in escaping from their captors or eventually obtaining an honourable release.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 68. From the entry rangatira
  • The Communist captor of Genevieve De Galard Terraube, the heroic “angel of Dienbienphu” told her today she is free to leave the Red-held fortress of Dienbienphu at any time.1954 May 19, United Press, “Heroic Nurse Stays in Fort”, in San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California, page 1. From the entry Dienbienphu

Meaning of captor

  1. noun One who is holding a captive or captives.
  2. noun One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.

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Questions about captor in a sentence

How do you use captor in a sentence?
Captor is used as a noun. For example: “As a prisoner of war, he was interrogated by his enemy captors.”
What is a short sentence with captor?
““The kidnapped, or hostages, begin to identify with their captors."”
What does captor mean?
Captor means one who is holding a captive or captives.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: captor (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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