Prisoners in example sentence

Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help – to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.

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All western Indians at that point in time were now prisoners of war.

On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.

Prisoners are still born into prisoner of war camps, long after the guards are gone.

Teachers were prisoners.

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