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Example sentences for "taken captive"

  • Aristobulus II escapes from Rome, opposes the Romans in Judaea, and is taken captive a second time.

  • It was my delight to be "taken captive by the devil at his will" (2 Tim 2:26).

  • The khan is in your power, the people are slain or taken captive.

  • The remainder of this great host were almost to a man either slain or taken captive.

  • The princes alone may be taken captive, and reserved for public execution.

  • Igor was vanquished in a sanguinary battle, taken captive, imprisoned in a convent, and Ysiaslaf became the nominal monarch of Russia.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    city clerk; divers manners; good common school education; good farmer; great pace; may take; taken away from the; taken back; taken captive; taken care; taken down from the; taken for; taken from; taken into; taken notice; taken out; taken over; taken place; taken prisoner; taken seriously; taken three; taken together; that great; transverse sections; universal consent; went from