"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Small teams of militants were to seize and kill hostages, similar to the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, the sources said.
- One Palestinian was reported killed in the raid, which the army said was a mission to seize civilian hostages.
- Senator Helms acknowledges with pride that he has seized hostages as the only way to get the Administration's attention.
- Relatives of 17 convicted in the attack decide to seize American hostages in an attempt to free the prisoners.
- The inmates rioted Saturday night, seizing hostages and burning down 10 of the compound's 14 buildings.
- The next day, the Serbs seized hostages.
- Seventy-five prisoners in a jail in Abkhazia, far to the south of here, seize weapons and hostages.
- Groups of students loyal to the new regime seize control of the American embassy in Tehran and take 66 officials hostage.
- Should the Soviets have gloated when the Iranians seized American hostages in 1979?
- Minister of Defense Onama, who courageously went to speak to the mutineers, was seized and held hostage.
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