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.
• That is the fastest way to get hostages out and aid in, and to stop the fighting and loss of life.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
• By then, the broad outlines of a deal to release the hostages were in sight.
  — Jonathan Alter, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• And the price to release U.S. hostages will only go up.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• Simmons said the bullet fired at Clark may have struck the hostage.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023
• In the third phase, the sides would exchange the remains of hostages and prisoners.
  — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2024
• And over 40 of them were taken hostage and are still being held.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 Dec. 2023
• In 1983, dozens of inmates took control of parts of the prison, taking prison staff hostage.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2023
• And the court calls for the return and release of the hostages being held by Hamas currently as well.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2024
• The coup leaders are now trying to starve Mr. Bazoum to death while holding him hostage.
  — Mamadou Kiari Liman-Tinguiri, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2023
• Militants still hold about 130 hostages, a fourth of them believed to be dead.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 19 Feb. 2024
• After all, Trump’s opponents are hostage to the shadows on the wall, too.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 12 June 2023
• The department did not confirm whether Qualin had been held hostage.
  — Camila Bernal, CNN, 9 June 2023
• Or was that sparked by getting caught up in the hostage situation at Dave’s house?
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• Transferred to the safekeeping of Qatar, the middleman in the hostage deal, the money may be used only to buy food or medicine.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 20 Sep. 2023
• Ten hostages will be released on each day of the truce, Israeli officials said.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• The officers, armed with paintball guns, ended up shooting both the suspect and the hostage.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• The hostage situation in Texas last year was one of the more recent reminders of this new normal.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• This is not the first time prisoners have taken hostages this summer.
  — Ana María Cañizares, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• Our national mission is to locate the missing and return all the hostages home.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Men, women and children murdered in their homes, women raped, and now over 100 still held hostage.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Olofsson brought in one of the bank’s phones and connected it inside the vault so that the hostages could call their families.
  — Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• Hamas has said that a second phase of cease-fire and the release of all hostages could begin if Israel withdraws all of its troops from Gaza.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• The man shot four people in July 2006, before taking his wife and two children hostage.
  — Christopher Maag Bryan Anselm, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Of those, 135 still remain as hostages, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
  — Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• The meeting will focus on the release of hostages in exchange for a pause in hostilities.
  — Aamer Madhani, Matthew Lee, Zeke Miller, Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2024
• Negan crows from a mezzanine before slitting a hostage’s throat and spraying blood down to the ground floor.
  — Jessica Liese, Variety, 15 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024