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Sentence Examples Three army helicopters flew to the interior jungles of Jolo to pick up the freed captives, landing in a clearing uphill from the rebel camp. The small room at the end was obviously the room where the captives had been detained. The hostage takers have allowed their 14 captives to receive supplies for the first time ever. The government has so far refused to consider the exchange and the captives are condemned to many more years in their jungle prisons. As the captives escaped, residents and troops ran through the streets, and the wounded were carried off on stretchers. And it's praying for the other captives and other families who are living in fear and dread. That night, over a hundred people showed up to pray for the safe return of the captives. Another short chain joins the leg-irons to the handcuffs, ensuring the captives cannot walk properly. Enfranchisement of slaves, often in a body, and ransom of slaves and captives became works of piety. Often, he would hold women as captives until they were sold as slaves at a town held auction. Many local leaders, however, continued to sell captives to illegal slave traders. There are Arabs, Uzbeks and Chechens and local tribesmen among the captives. The unsourced report was on the Arabic-language channel al-Alam and contained a mix of old and previously unseen footage of the captives. He grabbed his Sten gun in one hand and, holding up his trousers with the other, he brought his three captives out to us. The rebels generally bring their captives across the border to a Lord's Resistance Army camp in Sudan. They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else. Why had he suddenly turned around, turned himself in, and gotten help for his captives? The United States government is forbidden by its own law from torturing captives and prisoners. At one point, the hostage wife demands to take one of the other captives to the ladies' room. In the old days there were also slaves, those born as slaves and more recent captives. Show More Sentences Each rebel carried many, many weapons so they could arm the captives they saved. The human captives in the encampment just outside of the city were becoming more discontent by the day. White rapacity, hypocrisy, and cant are hard to stomach, but so are cannibalism, headhunting, and the refined torture of captives. The captives on the rock were at last rescued by the islanders, who are the most dexterous cragsmen in those parts. He institutionalised the killing of captives before world leaders could make the country a cockpit of the cold war. A hostage heard the gunmen shouting that they would release their captives if the security forces let them go. The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs. Consternation spread through the armed men, and a subdued elation sprang into the hearts of the captives. One theme that remained constant was the idea of captives and oppressors and Darwinian ideas of the survival of the fittest. En route, approximately half of the captives suffocated or were killed by shots fired by soldiers into the airtight containers. A share tenant system has made most farmers captives of landlords, or caciques. They have suffered many casualties, and their jails are full to the brim with captives. The rest of the captives began to disrobe, and were looking forward to their first shower in days. After 1815 British warships who captured slave ships brought freed captives there. These detractors are captives of an escapist interpretation of Hindu philosophy. If his captives were using torture to keep him subdued, he would be too proud to let her know. After great battles, the captives were brought to the temple of Dagon to wait in the darkness. The objectification of women is further underscored by Bacon's seizing them as captives for ransom. For two centuries, his forebears had been white slaves in North Africa, captives in North America or, like him, prisoners of war in South Asia. When he went against the king's orders and refused to slay a band of barbarian captives, he was promptly put under arrest. Show More Sentences To amuse themselves on their first day, the captives held a tilting match in the gardens, and following that they attended a ballet and a collation. One Japanese officer later told his captives he had posed as a native and observed them close hand while noting the strength and disposition of the Australian positions. Perhaps the most mysterious of the captives is 29-year-old journalist and activist Irma Krat. When it showed more prisoners, the Australian Defence Department said that its failure to pixelate the faces of captives was an infringement of the Geneva Conventions. He notes that military captives and criminals were available in quantity and reminds us of the long tradition of galley slaves at the oars of Mediterranean shipping. And interwoven between all these are Colley's captives, a dramatis personae whose names and narratives gradually imprint themselves upon the reader as in a good novel. Previous tapes did show hooded men butchering their captives. She also tracks his deteriorating health through the harrowing videos of the captives regularly released by the Nusra Front. Added value must be defined by sellers in terms of buyers' needs, rather than focusing on customers as captives who can be cross-sold other products from a firm's portfolio. Will not both be handed over as captives to a band of corruptionists? Independent voters increasingly see both parties as captives of corrupt, self-serving and self-perpetuating political machinery. Onto this stage is rolled a triangular cage for the important prison scenes, the widely spaced bars forming a jungle gym for the captives to perform their monkeyshines on. Those were the ultimate examples in American history of a corporate trade show and of the political parties being captives of the special interests. He seemed at first much pleased of the situation, but after examining the captives closely he called a palaver. The lower frame is modelled as a triumphal arch flanked by bound captives. But as the furor subsides and the thunder dies, most or all of those girls probably will remain captives. He is also supposed to have serenaded his captives with his own rendition of Charles Aznavour love songs. Operating in heavy fire, the column finally extracted the pinned-down forces and their captives, but 18 Americans lost their lives in the process. He used some of the captives as human shields and forced others to hold a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window. But they were captives of the extreme radical elements in their party, for whom the Green movement was not essentially a political cause but a spiritual one. Show More Sentences Many other messages were exchanged between Zoraida and the captive until enough money was collected to furnish a ship and ransom other bagnio captives besides himself. While most of the captives were eventually ransomed, the raid stood as a clear reminder to all the colonies and to Britain as well of how dangerous was frontier life. The empire dissolved into petty polities, fighting among each other for war captives to sell into slavery. There were also reported sightings of European captives at various Indian settlements during the same time period. He offloaded his captives a short time later, and gave each one gifts appropriate to their rank, as well as a letter of safe conduct. The Englishmen sold their African captives into slavery in Spanish plantations. The hunters rode out on their koomkies, supplied with ropes, and other apparatus, for securing their captives. He published a proclamation releasing his captives, discharging his debts, and promising to henceforth govern according to the law. This becomes intensified when he becomes the prophesied saviour of the captives of Logres. Some Africans had made a business out of capturing Africans from neighboring ethnic groups or war captives and selling them. Africans played a direct role in the slave trade, selling their captives or prisoners of war to European buyers. The prisoners and captives who were sold were usually from neighbouring or enemy ethnic groups. The transatlantic slave trade resulted in a vast and as yet still unknown loss of life for African captives both in and outside America. A family's status was indicated by the number of slaves it owned, leading to wars for the sole purpose of taking more captives. However, there as elsewhere the convention is not used for minor figures shown engaged in some activity, such as the captives and corpses. During the period of Republican expansionism when slavery had become pervasive, war captives were a main source of slaves. For example, merchant John Lok brought several captives to London in 1555 from Guinea. Slaver John Hawkins, for example, arrived with 300 captives from West Africa. In 1618 the Barbary pirates attacked Lanzarote and La Gomera taking 1000 captives to be sold as slaves. Icarus and Daedalus were captives of King Minos and crafted wings to escape. Show More Sentences At the Circus Maximus, two armies of war captives, each of 2,000 people, 200 horses, and 20 elephants, fought to the death. The English became familiar with captivity narratives written by Barbary pirates' prisoners and ransomed captives, as so many people were taken. Some bagnios had chapels, hospitals, shops, and bars run by captives, though such amenities remained uncommon. Soldiers would use their captives for sword practice, attempting to decapitate them or cut them in half with a single blow. Many of these captives were forced to undergo human sacrifice in Amerindian civilizations such as the Aztecs. Hostages were exchanged in a bid to avoid conflict, but relations broke down and both sides mutilated their captives. Indeed, the captives bobbed up to the surface after being thrown in the water from the boats. Some of the surviving captives are reported to have been among the rebelling gladiators in the Third Servile War. Some surviving captives were reported to have been among the rebelling Gladiators in the Third Servile War. Now Mars has always been worshipped by the Goths with cruel rites, and captives were slain as his victims. It is known to have traded for African captives at New Calabar on the Guinea Coast. The ambush had yielded only two captives, and raised the alarm on the mainland shore. The raids and attacks of the Reconquista created captives on both sides, who were either ransomed or sold as slaves. Without water or sanitation, the floor of the dungeon was littered with human waste and many captives fell seriously ill. On June 14 they set sail again looking for a chain of islands in the west that had been described by their captives. Such performances included ritual dances, presentation of war captives, offerings of tribute, human sacrifice, and religious ritual. Maya warfare was not so much aimed at destruction of the enemy as the seizure of captives and plunder. Generally only high status prisoners of war were sacrificed, with lower status captives being used for labour. And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest. Jacques Cartier set sail for a second voyage on May 19 of the following year with three ships, 110 men, and his two Iroquoian captives. Show More Sentences Torres intended to personally present the captives, weapons and a detailed account to the king on his return to Spain. Torres, his crew and his captives disappear entirely from the historical record at this point, and their subsequent fate is unknown. His men survived on a diet of pine bark, stolen food, stray forest animals and native captives whom they cannibalized. During the next year it was learned from captives that two koches had been wrecked and their survivors killed by the natives. Selling captives or prisoners was common practice among Africans, Turks, Berbers and Arabs during that era. The Mongol invasions and conquests in the 13th century also resulted in taking numerous captives into slavery. In 1571, the Crimean Tatars attacked and sacked Moscow, burning everything but the Kremlin and taking thousands of captives as slaves. They are believed to have been war captives, or the descendents of war captives. The Royal Navy was increasingly effective in intercepting slave ships, freeing the captives and taking the crew for trial in courts. Slavery continued to exist in Africa, where Arab slave traders raided black areas for new captives to be sold in the system. According to this theory, these captives developed what are called pidgins, simplified mixtures of two or more languages. After destroying Te Maiharanui's village they took their captives to Kapiti and killed them. Though they were captives removed from their homelands, these people were never documented as slaves. Slavery wreaked havoc in the interior, with states initiating wars of conquest for captives. Hannibal marched his army to modern Chambery and took their city easily, stripping it of all its horses, captives, beasts of burden and corn. His wife and son remain in Belarus, captives of the Lukashenko regime. The Nissen huts housed low-risk captives who were allowed to mingle outside with villagers. I hope it is the same group of ELN soldiers who released the captives who are holding Alistair. James Warren describes the Sulu slave trade, where captives were seized along the coast of many Southeast Asian countries and taken to the Sulu archipelago. Abakar Ahamat, the governor of the Adamawa region, said the owner of the camp, Mallam Danlatti, was detained after the release of the captives on Monday. Show More Sentences Having lived in Algiers, Morgan would have seen returning corsairs with their booty and hapless captives, drudging along the streets to the bagnios of slavery. Nevertheless, fronting carriers reinsuring with a captive can assume substantial credit risk because the captives reinsuring the risk may not be sufficiently capitalized. Berga was the deadliest work detachment for American captives in Germany. Later, Clovis I liberated captives after Genevieve urged him to do so. In 1841, Garrison was imprisoned on charges of libel for accusing Newburyport shipowner Francis Todd and captain Nicholas Brown of transporting 44 African captives in chains. Kongo gained captives from the Kingdom of Ndongo in wars of conquest. Early Portuguese writings show that the Kingdom did have slavery before contact, but that they were primarily war captives from the Kingdom of Ndongo. When the Arab slave trade and Atlantic slave trade began, many of the local slave systems began supplying captives for slave markets outside Africa. The kings of Dahomey sold their war captives into transatlantic slavery, who otherwise would have been killed in a ceremony known as the Annual Customs. Their captives were often given a choice between Calvinism and death. In the Classic period, such trophy heads no longer appeared on the king's belt, but Classic period kings are frequently depicted standing over humiliated war captives. Although being of the royal bloodline was of utmost importance, the heir also had to be a successful war leader, as demonstrated by taking of captives. Ojeda took many captives back to Spain whom he sold as slaves. Alvaro Fernandes returned to Portugal thereafter, with only the two captives from Bezeguiche, the barrels of Senegal River water and the hunters' weapons to show for it. In the islands he captured some inoffensive natives and returned with them as captives to Sagres, excusing his failure by recounting the dangers of the trip. Eventually, tens of thousands of captives were being taken every year. Thereafter, he presented the Sinhalese captives to the Yongle Emperor. In 1489, the first year of Venetian control of Cyprus, Turks attacked the Karpasia Peninsula, pillaging and taking captives to be sold into slavery. However, Maurice's refusal to ransom several thousand captives taken by the Avars, and his order to the troops to winter in the Danube caused his popularity to plummet. Some captives used their experiences as a North African slave to criticize slavery in the United States, such as William Ray in his book Horrors of Slavery. Show More Sentences Contemporary writers noted that the Scottish and Welsh took captives as slaves during raids, a practice which was no longer common in England by the 12th century. A long list might be given of people of good social position, not only Italians or Spaniards, but German or English travelers in the south, who were captives for a time. More than 20,000 captives were said to be imprisoned in Algiers alone. The bezants would be the expression of the redemption of the captives, illustrating the participation of the notables of Cherbourg on the Third Crusade. Many of these captives were freed from enslavement on Spanish ships. But some African kings refused to sell any of their captives or criminals. For these new settlers in the colony of Camulodunum drove people out of their houses, ejected them from their farms, called them captives and slaves. I gazed at the defenceless captives with a shuddering sense of security, until one day a cross-spider broke out of its cage and ran furiously over my hands and clothing. Examples from Classical Literature The Indians passed safely and carried their captives with them to the Pequot country. Several of the former captives of Spielberg were living in Milan at this time. Well, amongst these liberated captives was one who told a sad tale of starvation at his internment camp. The Suliotes returned to Janina with the captives and the emblems of victory. Salcedo, retook these captives from the Chinese and gave them their liberty. There is no reason to say that another kish may not have been found among the captives. Constantin made the first move by burning the town of Kostroma and carrying off the inhabitants as captives. That all captives within the sultanate of Sulu be delivered within one year. For reasons of his own the lancer colonel does not intrude his company on the captives. She ordered the captives to be chained and sent off at once to Antananarivo. Among the released captives, of course, were our friends of the Rimini family. The captives were pale and seemed to cringe from the pale interrogation light. She cudgelled her brains to devise some means of getting the better of her captives. In this region there are whole nations of cannibals, who devour their captives. But, as relations between Elam and Babylon grew more peaceful, Elamite captives were scarce. By this time the natives of the Greater Antilles were gone, and with them the thousands of captives from the mainland. Then he seated himself not far from the captives, facing them, grinning savagely. The Wyandottes are at peace with the shawnees and do not take away their captives. He did not signalize his triumphs by the freeing of captives or the giving of rewards. There was no watch kept, and the captives had no indication that they were abridged of their freedom. Show More Sentences These captives had been kept for several months at a temperature of 21 degrees Centigrade, and on a daily photoperiod of 15 hours. To add to the clanger, the gratings had been thrown overboard, and there was no way of confining the captives in the hold. Look up that raciest of commentators, and see what he there says about the deliberate tears of the captives in Babylon. If it could be any consolation to them, these Saxons were not William's only captives. Two English captives escaped at Passamaquoddy, and got into Portsmouth. To posterity I bequeath the recognition of these poor captives. The slave-markets of Egypt and Tunis were glutted with Chian captives. The Arabs are captives of armed jihadist hotheads and magniloquent boastful fellow travellers. So I ask your advice how to act in this matter, and what fate I should mete out to these captives. Creakle entered after breakfast, and stood in the doorway looking round upon us like a giant in a story-book surveying his captives. But at last the time came when the giant took it into his head to amuse himself by arranging fights between some of his captives. Our condition here was not much better than that of the illustrious captives whom we left behind. The two latter followed their captors in the humble guise of captives, without arms. For a few moments the captives had been tantalized with a hope of release. From the account of the first taking of captives by the Israelites, num. In the 1980s, there were around 100 captives domiciled in the United States and nearly 1,000 offshore. The unfortunate bee-hunter and his companions had become the captives of a people, who might, without exaggeration, be called the Ishmaelites of the American deserts. The vessel is a reconstruction of the slave ship that was commandeered in Cuba in 1839 by 53 African captives, 35 of whom eventually were returned to their homeland. Yet, brother, take my advice, and file your tongue to a little more courtesy than your habits of predominating over infidel captives and Eastern bondsmen have accustomed you. Her mother, Macropha, my wife, was of Swazi blood, and was brought to the king's kraal with other captives after a raid, and given to me as a wife by the king. Show More Sentences And in the biggest canoe house, the club house of the stags, where no Mary might come under penalty of death by torture, the captives were stored. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of captives? Words that rhyme with captives What is the adverb for captives? What is the adjective for captives? What is the noun for captives? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words captive-bred captive audience captive captivation captivatingly captivating captivity captopril captor captors capturable capture 8-letter Words Starting With c ca cap capt capti captiv captive