"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No one close enough to grab to use as a hostage this time.
- "We might be able to use him as a hostage."
- This was the plan that he had conceived to hold them off, using the girl as a hostage.
- The wife could also be used as a hostage in case of any rebellion by that chief.
- She plans to use her as a hostage to escape.
- She is used as a hostage to try to have Ben surrender.
- I think he wanted to use me as a hostage.
- But also I think the idea was to use her as a hostage.
- Some believed that she was being used as a hostage to force her husband out of hiding.
- And, of course, he had, the man himself, his physical presence, to use as a hostage.
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