"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We could have taken all of you as hostages, but in fact we've taken only the mayor.
- They then took the other three Americans as hostages, and declared them prisoners of war.
- The next day, other monks later took government officials as hostages in retaliation.
- He and his family was taken to Moscow as hostages.
- On the way he took at least three workmen as additional hostages.
- I was told he took my family as hostages.
- For example, many oil workers have been taken as hostages.
- The families of the deserters have been taken as hostages.
- When, however, children were taken as hostages, the result was an effect that has gone unnoticed by our media.
- One day, some terrorists attack the school and take the children as hostages.
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