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Example sentences for: hostage

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Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals’ wives and children hostage in Edo.
He also helped Russia out of the hostage crisis that occurred in 1996, when a group of armed Chechens took 1,200 hostages at a hospital in a southern Russian town outside Chechnya.
The Army immediately set about creating the Delta Force, one of whose missions was hostage rescue.
And neither hermit nor hostage began life with an initial h .
.. and make himself a hostage to fortune (to mis-cite Bacon in my turn) when doing so.