How to Use in captivity in a Sentence

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• The study might also shed light on how to care for snakes in captivity.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• The frogs, just past the tadpole stage, were bread in captivity.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
• What is freedom to a woman who has been in captivity all her life?
  — Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
• Gibbons in captivity have hung pieces of rope or blanket on their cages to make swings.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Some of the victims spent up to a year in captivity, police said.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 17 July 2024
• The handover was a grim reminder of those who died in captivity.
  — Melanie Lidman, arkansasonline.com, 21 Feb. 2025
• As the days in captivity drag on, many have been killed, and their families live in agony.
  — NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
• Some of the hostages have been released, while others have died in captivity.
  — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
• Parrots in captivity that are well cared for can live more than 60 years.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
• Pregnant detainees were forced to give birth in captivity and then killed.
  — Débora Rey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
• The voles were bred in captivity and then placed into pens to head to the river banks, the video shows.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
• African penguins can live to be 27 years old in the wild, and longer in captivity.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• Many of them, born in captivity, have never seen the outdoors.
  — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 18 June 2025
• Gibbons said northern water snakes have been known to live up to nine years in captivity.
  — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
• Horses were bred in captivity on the western steppe at least five thousand years ago.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• This applies to both native and non-native species, whether caught in the wild or bred in captivity.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• The pack’s patriarch died in captivity of wounds incurred while in the wild.
  — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 8 July 2025
• If Ghosts‘ new spirit has her way, Isaac will be in captivity for a very long time.
  — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 18 Sep. 2024
• Not to help the snake cope better in captivity—to be a better pet for whoever owns it.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Their close cousin, the Koi fish, has been known to live up to 200 years in captivity!
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 11 Feb. 2024
• The mammals cannot be released into the wild because they were born and raised in captivity.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
• Some 20 of the 48 hostages still in captivity are believed to be alive.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
• Many of the 100 or so people who remain in captivity are feared dead.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
• There are still 48 hostages who remain in captivity, 20 of whom are thought to be alive.
  — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
• More than 130 remain in captivity, a fourth of them believed to be dead.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
• Liat spent 54 days in captivity, and her husband was killed.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
• Israel aims to free the more than 100 hostages who remain in captivity.
  — Najib Jobain, Wafaa Shurafa, and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Dec. 2023
• Of those, about 100 remain in captivity, with a third believed to be dead.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
• Nine members of the species raised in captivity since their youth—four males and five females—have been known to live past 20 years.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• Researchers found one pregnant female Guilin grass lizard, which laid two eggs while in captivity, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024