hostage crisis

noun

: a situation in which someone is holding people as hostages

Examples of hostage crisis in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Disappointment from four troubling years of inflation, Soviet invasion in Afghanistan and especially the Iran hostage crisis was swift. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026

Plagued by those figures and the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan. — Michael A. Mische, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2026

His detractors see him as a polarizing leader who, beset by an ongoing corruption trial, dragged out the war in Gaza and its hostage crisis for political reasons. — Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026

The 1979 Iran hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter’s reelection bid. — Nate Swanson, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for hostage crisis

• ecdysis
• haemoptysis
• hemoptysis
• lysis
• phthisis