keep captive
Example Sentences
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We have no idea The Matrix Resurrections opens with protagonist Neo living inside a new iteration of the Matrix, a simulated reality designed by machines to keep captive humans docile.
From The Verge • Dec. 23, 2021
But it is hard to question Holst’s premise that, as long as one has zoos, culling helps to keep captive populations genetically robust.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
It’s a somewhat nebulous concept, but it essentially encompasses a number of strategies to keep captive animals engaged.
From Slate • May 18, 2016
Never before was such a vast and closely woven network cast from above to envelope and keep captive twenty-six million people.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John
I never keep captive birds, but if they were given to me, and I could not refuse, I should do a great deal more for them.
From Birds in Town and Village by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
