How to Use captor in a Sentence

captor

noun

• The men fought their captors and escaped.
• 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
• Ike said that while he was imprisoned he had been repeatedly shot by his captor.
  — Lorenzo D'agostino, CNN, 23 Dec. 2017
• Hours earlier, their captors had ordered them to pack their belongings and start walking.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• Some of the schoolgirls taken in the Chibok mass abduction were forced to marry their captors.
  — Sam Olukoya, The Seattle Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• Eyewitnesses said there were gunshots and orders to run, before the captors began to beat people with sticks.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 17 July 2024
• In April 1987, Anderson was given a suit of clothes his captors had made for him.
  — Alistair Bell, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
• The refusals by Getty prompted the captors to become increasingly volatile and brutal.
  — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2017
• The group, 110 strong, originally asked their captor, Meaher, to pay for passage back to Africa.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• They are kidnapped, sold between captors, extorted and sometimes forced into prostitution and unpaid hard labor.
  — SiobhÁn O’Grady, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• As Nick tries to dig his way through a wall with that purloined nail clipper while his captors sleep, shafts of moonlight stab through the single, barred window of his cell, casting long shadows across the floor.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Strangely, his captors asked specifically for Skiles to negotiate his return.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2018
• Adopted by a girl who lives on a farm, Ferdinand's peaceful existence comes crashing down when the authorities return him to his former captors.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• In the meeting, officials pointed to Hamas' recent announcement that one male hostage was killed and two female hostages were seriously wounded by their captors.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
• Sincere Trammell said his captor kept him in a closet and in a vehicle parked in the garage of his mother’s Liberty Township condo.
  — Stefano Dipietrantonio, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• The range of her gifts is best seen in the title story, about two young women who are forced to become child brides to Islamists but gradually turn the tables on their captors through the practice of mind control.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024