How to Use captor in a Sentence

captor

noun
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  • The men fought their captors and escaped.
  • To torment you, your evil captor forces you to take a series of steps to the left and right.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
  • Reports later revealed the captors had tied them up in the home.
    — Sarah Aires, Woman's Day, 7 May 2013
  • There, the boy’s captors, apparently taking pity on him, secretly brought him to see his father.
    — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
  • The captors used blunt force trauma to the head to kill, but other fractures — at the neck, ribs, knees, legs and hands — speak to the brutality of the event.
    — Hillary Waterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
  • The pilot survived and, 30 years ago tomorrow, he was trotted out by his captors for a news conference.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Oct. 2016
  • 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
  • Army intelligence reported that Bergdahl and the civilians had become a burden on their captors.
    — Michael Ames, Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2015
  • Cursing in Yiddish and Lithuanian, Zeidel shook his fist at the ghosts of his former Nazi captors.
    — Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Three years later, he was hanged by his Iraqi Shiite captors in what seemed to many Iraqi Sunnis to be a sectarian killing.
    — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 9 Apr. 2017
  • Meaningful action against black jails will require the political will to locate and close all of them, freeing their detainees and prosecuting their captors.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2010
  • Japanese eels find an exit Of the 32 eels that were eaten, 13 managed to reach their captor’s gills and poke their tails out, with just nine eels fully exiting.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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