"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We had been held passive by a threat to hostages who were even then being savaged.
- She also handed the phone to other hostages.
- One senior law enforcement official said the use of an incapacitating agent to free hostages was unprecedented.
- It is particularly problematic to resolve on a course of action in response to hostages taken by the group.
- From 1977 to 1989, the American public kept the pressure on its leaders to do something, anything, to free hostages or at least avenge them.
- All the militants were killed with no casualties to hostages & damage to the temple.
- No Christian prince would do such a thing to innocent hostages?
- "We don't want to see it linked in any way to American hostages."
- Reporters were able to shout a few questions to hostages who appeared briefly on the hospital balcony.
- "With the President, said North, it always came back to hostages," the report says.
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