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
No king or emperor in the world had the power to keep captive this nonentity, this Haralal.
From Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
The name means Japan Island and is given because Resanof designated it as the place to keep captive Japanese whom he expected to capture through his expedition against the lower Kuril Islands in 1806.
From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Clarence Leroy Andrews
