Hostage in example sentence

Archie Mayo directs splendidly this story of a poet-drifter who (literally) walks into an eatery in the Arizona desert, where he runs into a desperate, Dillingeresque bad guy who holds him hostage, and in the course of his captivity falls in love with a very naive young woman.

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I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box.

They were holding something like 700 people hostage.

They'd released a bunch of people, but they still had about 700 people hostage.

So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot, by the hostage takers or by the police forces trying to deal with the situation.

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