Hostage
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This is the umpteenth version of that old chestnut about a bank executive whose family is held
hostage
while he is forced to assist the kidnappers in robbing the bank.
More example sentences with word hostage
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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