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Example sentences for: hostages

How can you use “hostages” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The still-unidentified Islamic terrorists released their 155 hostages after India agreed to free three of their jailed comrades.
This is a pretty slim reed to hang Reagan on; he was clearly obsessed with the hostages, and clung to any hope of setting them free.
2) The president hatches a plan to help the hostages escape, but he needs to alert the Air Force to his scheme.
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.
He knew we were selling arms to Iran--itself flatly illegal and spectacularly in conflict with the administration's public pronouncements--but, he claimed, he had no idea the deal involved paying ransom for hostages.