captivity

Mr. Shem Tov is author of “Meeting Myself in Hell,” a memoir of his time in captivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

A new study suggests that saltwater crocodiles born or raised in captivity may not try to return to their breeding centers once they are released into the wild.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

He spent two years in captivity before he died at the age of 34 in 1918 shortly before the end of the war.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

After weeks in captivity, she discovered she was pregnant and became very sick.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

And, truly, adult chimps in captivity often are dangerous because so many of them have not been well treated.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022

These were either voluntary, for purposes of trade and commerce, or the results of conquest, such as the captivities of Assyria and Babylonia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

Neither is the precise time certain, with respect to these captivities, at which the events occurred which we are about to relate.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

I loved to read of Smith's travels, sufferings, captivities, escapes, not only in America but Europe.

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

The captivities and oppressions suffered by Ours would take long to recount, and so I shall give only one.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson