HOSTAGE in a Sentence
Learn HOSTAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
33 example sentences for HOSTAGE, such as:
1. Fear was the hostages' constant companion.
2. Eight people were held hostage for four months.
3. The group are holding two western tourists hostage.
4. They covenanted that their hostages would be present.
5. One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits.
2. Eight people were held hostage for four months.
3. The group are holding two western tourists hostage.
4. They covenanted that their hostages would be present.
5. One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HOSTAGE
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hostage
n. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
Classic Sentence:
1 She felt that willy-nilly she was being initiated into the assembly of housekeepers; with the baby for hostage, she would never escape; presently she would be drinking coffee and rocking and talking about diapers.
2 Bonacieux away, and convey her to a place of safety, and there, if matters required, make her a hostage.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 The embattled president also denied recent claims that he was being held hostage by his own soldiers.
2 The group are holding two western tourists hostage.
3 The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
4 Eight people were held hostage for four months.
5 He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
6 The former hostage is in remarkably good shape considering his ordeal.
7 The surviving pirate accused of taking an American ship captain hostage is here, and we're getting our first look at him.
8 At first the former prisoner did not wish to discuss his harrowing months of captivity as a political hostage.
9 Chained to the wall for months on end, the hostage despaired that no one could unfetter him.
10 Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed.
11 One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits.
12 They covenanted that their hostages would be present.
13 The book celebrates the hostages' remarkable triumph over appalling adversity.
14 Immured in a dark airless cell, the hostages waited six months for their release.
15 Fear was the hostages' constant companion.