hostage

How To Use hostage In A Sentence

• Most of the child hostages who were seized by terrorists were reported to be alive.
• Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) General Joo Manuel lask week said that the 14 people on board that plane were alive and held hostage by UNITA forces. ANC Daily News Briefing
• The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
• These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
• Speaking to camera, the masked man accused the hostages of being spies for the British government and claimed that they had been abandoned. Times, Sunday Times
• That's one of the main Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. WN.com - Articles related to EU navy arrests 13 pirates off Oman
• This was meant to pave the way for talks aimed at gaining the release of the hostages.
• Met Police hostage negotiators also gave support. The Sun
• The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape.
• The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.