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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:

Looking to Afghanistan, where the hostages are being held on an airstrip, an editorial in the Hindu concluded, "If the Taliban wants to end its international isolation and move towards a partial lifting of sanctions, it must be seen playing a positive role in bringing this negotiation on its home turf to a successful conclusion."
His national security adviser, Robert McFarlane, and McFarlane's deputy, Admiral John Poindexter, thought the hostage problem might be solved and the U.S. position in the Middle East improved if the United States quietly negotiated with Iran about exchanging hostages for modest quantities of arms.
If Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had operated like Kenneth Starr, he would have forced Reagan, while president, to repeat or renounce under oath his public lies about Iran-Contra, such as those in his first TV address on the subject, when he declared it "utterly false" that arms had been shipped to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages.
2) The president hatches a plan to help the hostages escape, but he needs to alert the Air Force to his scheme.
Nor is it a standard cover-your-ass prevarication (we are not involved in: the Bay of Pigs invasion/bombing Cambodia/trading arms for Iranian hostages).