Words similar to hostage

Example sentences for: hostage

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The movie's zigs and zags are too entertaining to divulge, but it's permissible to say that Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, as a Miami-based government marshal, meet cute: She gets shut up with him in the trunk of a getaway car and is hostage to his chatter about movies, a life of crime, and how he wishes he had met her in a bar so he could have picked her up.
Oldman, barking out the hysterical howls that serve as lingua franca for all cinema terrorists, calls the White House and tells Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close) that he'll kill one hostage every half hour until Radek is released.
Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals’ wives and children hostage in Edo.
Brock is on track to make partner when a homeless man carrying a gun takes him hostage in the firm's plush conference room.
One commentator suggested that "the culprits may well have deliberately targeted the Japanese knowing that Japan places top priority on human lives in settling [hostage] cases.