How to Use captor in a Sentence

captor

noun

• The men fought their captors and escaped.
• With only so many hours to live, the captors subject the family to a series of sadistic games that will determine their fate.
  — James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• It's been a year of not knowing whether Agam Berger, 20, is alive or dead, or how she's being treated by her captors.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
• One of the places her captors put her to work was on Figueroa Street.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• One of the captors later forced her into a car, and she was dropped off on the side of the road.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
• The captors are said to have killed her child early in the journey.
  — Barbara Cutter, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• The judge agreed, and the defendant gushed with praise for his captors.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2018
• To torment you, your evil captor forces you to take a series of steps to the left and right.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
• One of the areas her captors dropped her off was on Figueroa Street.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• Some had been kept alone, apart from the others, in small rooms with their captors.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• The former captive was the host, and the former captor was in a foreign land.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 11 June 2018
• Nadia tried to run away, but each time her captors caught and beat her.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 3 July 2019
• Kala's captor, Todd Kohlhepp, was a 45-year-old real estate agent at the time.
  — Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2019
• Reports later revealed the captors had tied them up in the home.
  — Sarah Aires, Woman's Day, 7 May 2013
• Back in the present, those women have far more power, even if their captors don't know it.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2019
• Burkett then tried to jerk away from his captors and grab a radio from a desk in the control room.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019
• The condemned sang in defiance of their captors and the fate that awaited them.
  — Bryony Clarke, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
• He was asked the same questions over and over, as if his captors were optimistic to catch him in a lie.
  — Susie Kantar-Cohen, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
• His captors chained him to a wall, held guns to his head and stuck him in solitary confinement.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2024
• The gator continued lunging at its other captors and fell to the ground.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
• Even when the boy’s captors sliced off one of his ears and mailed it to a Rome newspaper, the oil tycoon was unmoved.
  — PEOPLE.com, 23 May 2018
• After the raid Cudjo’s captors bring him to Ouidah, a town on the coast from which hundreds of thousands left in chains.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• But halfway down the stairs, Joel goes into 100% savage mode, taking the weapons and killing the men who were his captors.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
• The four young climbers escaped their armed captor when Caldwell wrestled him and threw him off a cliff.
  — Andrew Bisharat, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
• Brienne is trying to help Jaime, who just had his sword hand chopped off by their captor.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• In April 1987 Anderson was given a suit of clothes that his captors had made for him.
  — Alistair Bell, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2024
• Steven Floyd died, but the head of the guards union said the 16-year veteran of the prison was forced into a closet and killed by his captors at some point.
  — Randall Chase, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• There is sly contempt for his captors, and a small smirk plays on his lips during a number of his scenes.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• Humans are kept as food for the sharks until two friends risk their lives to rise against their captor and his legion of sharks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• In April 1987, Anderson was given a suit of clothes his captors had made for him.
  — Alistair Bell, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024