captor
Example Sentences
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Since her disappearance, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted multiple videos on social media, including making direct appeals to their mother's captor.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Ramia said officers initially seemed engaged with her case, but stopped taking her calls once they identified her captor.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
Under the fugitive slave laws, the burden of proof belonged not to the captor but to the captured.
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
The all-seeing and never-believed Cassandra knows that she and her captor will both perish there; her conversations with Ritsa reinforce the author’s attempts to show women’s fates during wartime.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024
He did not care about finding his captor, repaying insults, or inflicting eternal punishments.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
