How to Use ransom in a Sentence

ransom

1 of 2 noun

• The ransom note explained the terms under which she would be released.
• The family is willing to pay ransom for his release.
• The kidnappers demanded a ransom of one million dollars.
• Quinn explained that Huskins had been held for $8,500 ransom.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• Still frames from a ransom video sent to Neo Lu’s parents in China.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Or Poles could trade the top pick for a king’s ransom to a quarterback-needy team — there are plenty of those in the NFL.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
• Biden is giving the regime in Iran nearly $16 billion as ransom for five hostages.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Vice's Motherboard obtained a copy of the ransom email sent to Riot Games.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
• All the group is instructed to do is watch the little girl overnight to collect a $50 million ransom.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
• A few days before funds were set to run out, the administration agreed to pay the ransom.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• The ransom: Cartwright must steal a top-secret file from MI5 headquarters.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Her kidnapping’s too much for Davenport, who gives in and pays the ransom.
  — EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• The wave of ransom demands picked up this spring amid a broader increase in safety threats to stores, say retail groups.
  — Byalan Murray, Fortune, 26 June 2023
• The ransoms, even small ones, are painful in a country where more than 60 percent of the population lives in poverty.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• The group then charges a ransom in exchange for releasing the data and not publishing it.
  — James Farrell, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The attackers' plan was to kidnap Denise and return her after Aaron paid a ransom.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
• Armed gangs terrorize and abduct people for ransom in the northwest.
  — James Bwala, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• The official said no ransom was paid and no concession was made to captors.
  — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Authorities said the search ended after Ross left a ransom note at the house of the girl’s family.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Bad actors may break in, encrypt files, and demand ransom.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• The local gangs know which of the block’s residents have relatives abroad who could afford a ransom.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• The man told the officer that he was forced to cheat victims online and had asked to leave, but his captors demanded a ransom of around $2,000.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• This places a sense of urgency on the health system to get control and allows hackers to demand high ransoms.
  — Forrester, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Matter stole a stone chair dedicated to Davis from a cemetery in Selma, and held it for ransom.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, but all are treated as righteous freely by his grace because of a ransom that was paid by Christ Jesus.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
• There were threats of kidnappings and demands for ransom payments.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• At the height of the first wave of TTP violence in 2008, his younger brother was kidnapped and released only after a ransom payment.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• One key issue is whether to pay a ransom to unlock systems after hackers have seized control of them.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• No ransom was paid and no concessions were made to Woodke's captors, Kirby said.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Her sister has been kidnapped and is being held in Cartagena; the ransom is the treasure map which Turner must bring at once to Colombia — or else.
  — Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023

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ransom

2 of 2 verb

• He was held captive for a week before he was ransomed and returned to his family.
• Mr. Braziller donated proceeds from the sale of 1,200 copies to ransom the work.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• The hackers then request ransom to release the data back to the cities.
  — Eric A. Howald Of The Keizertimes, oregonlive, 23 June 2020
• And their plan was to steal Abraham Lincoln’s dead body and ransom it back to the city of Chicago.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
• Should countries like Hungary be able to hold the rest of the bloc to ransom with its veto, and how can the EU reform that?
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 31 May 2022
• Louis was ransomed and the original plan had to be abandoned.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
• Now there’s ransom debt to pay, and another asylum case to make.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• The three planned for more than a year to ransom the children for $5 million from the state Board of Education.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• They were held for five days until their families raised about $4,000 to ransom each of them.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• In a nearby room with a view of the cable cars, a scared, desperate couple receives ransom terms from a stranger on the phone.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 22 June 2020
• Say a client is living in a territory where kidnap and ransom for profit is a day-to-day threat.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 June 2022
• After a shady investor steals their new invention, Nick, Dale and Kurt conspire to kidnap the man’s adult son and ransom him to pay off their debts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Identify who to call for help in the event of an attack and make decisions in advance about how to respond to ransom demands.
  — oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2022
• The buyers stand to make even more by extracting credit card info, ransoming accounts, and so on.
  — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• But as time passed, the men seemed more apologetic and admitted ransoming Western hostages.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• Both the group's blog site and ransom negotiation portal shut down, CBS News confirmed.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 July 2021
• The company caved to hackers’ ransom demands within hours of the attack, Bloomberg News reported.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 14 May 2021
• By holding all those things to ransom behind crypto tollbooths, the holders hoped to convert their tokens to real money.
  — WIRED, 23 Jan. 2023
• Extremists continue to hold the region to ransom, and banditry has led to the killing of thousands and the abduction of many including schoolchildren.
  — Chinedu Asadu, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2021
• Pilots making emergency landings in the desert risked being captured by local nomadic tribes who would then attempt to ransom them.
  — Miquel Ros, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• Her main contact is with a wealthy woman named Charlotte (Edie Falco), whose own son was captured and later successfully ransomed.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
• There’s also the chance investigators in at least some cases can recover from criminals ransom that has been paid.
  — Eric Tucker, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• Wampanoag abducted settlers and held them ransom, and settlers pillaged and destroyed Native villages.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2020
• The spec, an action thriller, follows a kidnapping and ransom negotiator tasked with finding a nine-year-old boy who went missing on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 30 Aug. 2021
• With many companies reluctant to talk about security breaches and ransom payments, some experts wonder if the scale of the problem is much bigger than publicly disclosed.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 1 June 2021
• Yet huge corporations are successfully held to ransom every day by cyber crooks demanding millions for the safe return of data.
  — Al Ramich, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• The purpose behind these types of attacks can vary, but they are generally designed to steal trade secrets, embarrass business leaders and tamper with, destroy or ransom data.
  — Perry Carpenter, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• Initially, authorities believed the paintings would re-appear quickly, either to be sold on the black market or used as a bargaining chip or ransom in criminal circles.
  — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 12 Apr. 2021
• Ransomware attacks hold data or access to computer systems ransom and demand money in return for releasing control back to the owner.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 11 May 2021
• The attack shows the growing audacity of tech-savvy criminal gangs, many of which are believed to be based in Russia and former Soviet republics, that are amassing untold riches by holding companies to ransom.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 10 May 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024