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prisoner of war

NOUN
  1. a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war

How To Use prisoner of war In A Sentence

  • He had tasted it as a prisoner of war in Germany, and the wine, a thimbleful in a mustard jar, was underripe and short on the finish. Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
  • He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp.
  • McCain meanwhile, is a decorated war veteran who spent nearly five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain in Colorado - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • She grew up in Surrey before meeting a German prisoner of war. Times, Sunday Times
  • No one like Rambo is going to help Americans discover the fate of missing soldiers in Southeast Asia and popular movies portraying such single-handed heroics are a disservice to the country, according to a former prisoner of war. Heroes or Villains?
  • Please state on what authority you base your implied conclusion that the GC is the only basis to hold a prisoner of war. Discourse.net: Constitution to Remain Suspended -- Official
  • As a jew and an American prisoner of war in Stalag VIIA at Moosburg, near Munich, where I arrived on December 15, 1944 in transit from a processing camp at Ludwigsburg, I encountered no overt discrimination for several months. In Stalag Viia
  • Standing at the centre of the memorial are six large basalt obelisks etched with the names of all the countries where Australians have been held prisoner of war.
  • McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam.
  • Having been shot down over Berlin, Roy was captured by the Nazis and sent to the Stalag 6 prisoner of war camp.
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