"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We shall keep you as hostages until we gain the millions.
- 'It's just that he has our children up there - he's keeping them as hostages!'
- All prisoners were allowed to return to their homes, except for 6 Narentines that were kept as hostages.
- I am going to keep your credentials as hostages.
- "All the more reason to keep them as hostages."
- Big Bear released the remaining police officers but kept the townspeople as hostages and destroyed the fort.
- International and local human rights groups, which have strongly criticized Israel, saying the men were kept as hostages, received the court's decision with relief.
- They kept Americans in the embassy as hostages.
- 'The Welsh have kept them as hostages, two small babies!'
- The Spanish, however, kept Guillot and his officers as useful hostages.
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