How to Use hostage in a Sentence

hostage

noun

• The passengers were taken hostage.
• The terrorists demanded a plane and a pilot in exchange for the hostages.
• They were held hostage for several days.
• The hostage crisis is now entering its second week.
• This wasn’t about the hostage protests.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
• About 20 hostages are thought to be still alive.
  — CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
• What did keeping the hostages buy them?
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
• The hostages are used only as the bluntest tool.
  — Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• But the hostages were paramount.
  — Time Staff, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• This – they should have never been held hostage.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• Yellen said the hostages are always on his mind.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 21 Sep. 2025
• This- they should have never been held hostage.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• None of the hostages was said to have any injuries.
  — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 3 June 2026
• What will this mean for ceasefire talks and hostages?
  — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
• Some sons looked stoked, others like hostages.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• And my husband isn’t a hostage in a chore chart prison.
  — Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 30 Dec. 2025
• It's hit hard, hit fast, crush the bad guys, get the hostage and get out.
  — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
• A lot of people feel like they were held hostage for a long time.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
• The hostages had been threatened with a weapon and some were zip-tied.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• How has this team let Aaron Rodgers take it hostage?
  — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 4 May 2026
• The remains of one hostage are still in Gaza.
  — CBS News, 2 Jan. 2026
• The 34-year-old man who was held hostage was able to get away and ran.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
• The pair quickly took a prison matron hostage.
  — Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
• The time has come for the release of the hostages held by Hamas.
  — Callum Sutherland, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
• Monday's going to be a very big deal when the hostages come back.
  — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
• The agreement would have been in exchange for hostages.
  — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
• No one was being held hostage, police sources said.
  — Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• For several weeks, the name and the age of each hostage was read aloud.
  — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• By then, the broad outlines of a deal to release the hostages were in sight.
  — Jonathan Alter, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• How long was Kara Robinson held hostage?
  — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026