Sentences with 'hostage'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hostage and other words derived from it.
• « Mendez figured that a Canadian production company wasn't going to let the hostage problem keep him from scouting locations in Iran. »
• « Belgian agents would enter a village and take women and children hostage, ordering the men to go into the jungle and collect a certain amount of rubber. If they did not reach the rubber quota in time, or sometimes even if they did, the agents would cut off the children's arms, rape or murder the women, or sometimes just murder everyone in the village outright. »
• « In Charlestown, Boston, Philadelphia and New York, the equivalent of millions of dollars worth of tea was taken hostage, either locked in warehouses or rotting in the holds of ships as they were forced to sail back to Britain. »