"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Or we will exchange hostages---" Savage's hand moved across the screen as if brushing the suggestion away.
- In the old days, people exchanged hostages as a kind of mutual check.
- It takes a subtle mind to plot exchanging hostages for ransom.
- The two sides meet and exchanged hostages.
- Knot remembered that historically the normal procedure, when warring factions made alliances, was to exchange hostages.
- When the two sides became tired of war, they came to a peace agreement and exchanged hostages.
- Not only that, but in classical Greece, rival city-states that wished to avoid war without changing their distinctive ways of life would exchange hostages.
- "Do we know where to exchange hostages?"
- Snorri continues that the two sides did so and exchanged hostages.
- The victors entered the city of York, exchanged hostages and were provisioned.
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