hold captive
Example Sentences
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It also said the Taliban should free 1,000 government personnel, including military men, they hold captive.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2020
A chemist will distill for you the odor of a blown rose, or catch and hold captive the breath of the morning meadow, and do it always just the same, and ever with like results.
From The Evolution of Dodd by Smith, William Hawley
"I have come to deliver Honey-Bee of Clarides whom you unjustly hold captive in your mole-hill, hideous little moles that you are!"
From Honey-Bee 1911 by Lane, Mrs. John
Yet we will turn from them all, from the victory and sorrow alike, to this faintly gleaming bubble of glass that will hold captive the phantasm of a fragrance of the soul.
From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton
I don’t know; they have great numbers of Christians whom they hold captive, and it is rare indeed that one of them escapes.
From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by Rainey, W. (William)
