How to Use captor in a Sentence

captor

noun

• The men fought their captors and escaped.
• The whole world knows my captors were guilty.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
• My captors were very, very strict about that.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• Once again, Heath’s captors hung up the phone.
  — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• Like before, our captors sleep in the space next to ours.
  — Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
• This time, the captors did not prod the hostages to offer them thanks.
  — Johnatan Reiss, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
• Nadia tried to run away, but each time her captors caught and beat her.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 3 July 2019
• Some had been kept alone, apart from the others, in small rooms with their captors.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• The captors are said to have killed her child early in the journey.
  — Barbara Cutter, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• Her captors dressed her in a hijab and drove her in circles for two hours.
  — Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
• That was enough to foil my captor’s attempt to kidnap her.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• Except in this case, there were no human captors in sight.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
• His captors twisted a rope tied around his neck, choking him.
  — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• One of the places her captors put her to work was on Figueroa Street.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• One of them was holding a shovel, forced by his captors to dig his own grave.
  — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
• The judge agreed, and the defendant gushed with praise for his captors.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2018
• The part of the video that shocked many was when David’s captors forced him to dig his own grave.
  — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• To torment you, your evil captor forces you to take a series of steps to the left and right.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
• 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
• 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
• One of the areas her captors dropped her off was on Figueroa Street.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• Guns and machetes in hand, our captors surrounded us and tied us to a tree.
  — Jon Meyersohn, Vanity Fair, 15 Jan. 2026
• Reports later revealed the captors had tied them up in the home.
  — Sarah Aires, Woman's Day, 7 May 2013
• Many had been forced to marry their captors and had children fathered by them.
  — Sam Olukoya, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The young woman is on the run from Spanish captors.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
• In one case, an Israeli hostage was asked by Hamas to kiss his captor.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
• The first episode focused on his escape from Raven, his captor.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 31 July 2025
• His captor, Chris, fits the trope of the monster hiding in plain sight.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
• He is told by his captors that he is forgotten and that his country doesn’t care about him.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
• Burkett then tried to jerk away from his captors and grab a radio from a desk in the control room.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019