Hostage
in example sentence
For the US public, the 444-day ordeal of the US embassy staff held
hostage
by radical Iranian students constituted a psychological shock that has still not abated.
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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