captor

Example Sentences

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Since her disappearance, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted multiple videos on social media, including making direct appeals to their mother's captor.

From BBC

Since their mother's disappearance, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted multiple videos on social media, including making direct appeals to their mother's captor.

From BBC

In the first shock of being caught, he’d heard a scraping of stone, as if his captor were sealing the mound.

From Literature

In some moments, Petrović even managed to see the humanity in his captors, despite his discomfort and constant fear of being killed.

From BBC

The 1974 political kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was front-page news for a year and a half — her abduction, then her announcement that she was joining her captors, then her discovery, arrest, and prosecution.

From Los Angeles Times