"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Of course, the bandit assigned to look after the potential hostages might soon desert his post.
- He didn't want to give the two gang members potential hostages.
- There was no point in wrapping a potential hostage up like a gift and presenting him to a possible enemy.
- Put simply, the soldiers are potential hostages for the Serbs.
- They intended upon using the 51 Jewish deportees as potential hostages.
- We're both on leave of absence at the University because it was too dangerous for potential hostages to be out where enemies could kidnap us.
- Even after her child had been ripped from her, Khouri was still useful as a potential hostage.
- "Having a bunch of potential hostages around is not my idea of a good plan."
- It is rash to expose potential hostages to one of the most reckless and erratic regimes in the world.
- A wreck might take out pedestrians, not to mention the fact that anyone on the street would become a potential hostage.
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