Examples of captor in a Sentence
The men fought their captors and escaped.
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Tragically, six young people who attended the Nova Festival were murdered by their captors on August 29 or 30 after 11 months of brutality.
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
By holding Mehrtens, his captors hoped to press New Zealand to lobby Indonesia into allowing Papua to secede from Indonesia – a seemingly impossible demand.
—Manveena Suri, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
The video was one of a series released by Hamas this week showing the six hostages, who Israeli officials say were killed by their captors before they could be rescued by Israeli forces.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2024
Advertisement Israeli officials say the six hostages were shot execution-style by their captors last Thursday or Friday while Israeli troops carried out operations nearby, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
By holding Mehrtens, his captors hoped to press New Zealand to lobby Indonesia into allowing Papua to secede from Indonesia – a seemingly impossible demand.
—Manveena Suri, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
The video was one of a series released by Hamas this week showing the six hostages, who Israeli officials say were killed by their captors before they could be rescued by Israeli forces.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2024
Advertisement Israeli officials say the six hostages were shot execution-style by their captors last Thursday or Friday while Israeli troops carried out operations nearby, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Captor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captor. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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captor
noun
cap·tor
ˈkap-tər 
-ˌtȯ(ə)r
: one that has captured a person or thing
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