hostage

Example Sentences

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Commenting on January’s inflation reading, she noted that the bank wouldn’t be held “hostage” by a single data point.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said he was opposed to all hostage agreements.

From BBC

Relations with the United States were cut in the wake of the hostage siege of the US embassy in Tehran that began that year and have remained severed ever since.

From Barron's

The Islamic republic has weathered previous blistering attacks -- by Iraq in the 1980s and Israel last June -- and a 1980 US helicopter mission to free hostages ended disastrously.

From Barron's

The women were released after more than 50 days as hostages.

From BBC