"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They had held a group of children hostage for almost six and a half hours.
- It was not clear whether the two men were holding the children hostage.
- Holding a child hostage was not a normal part of their expertise.
- That's the very small price we have paid so far to rescue forty men, women and children hostages.
- The Russians took around forty women and children hostage while the men were not in the village.
- Taking the children hostage, the police quickly began to barricade the windows and doors.
- "All right," he said, "let's take the children hostage until they release the prisoners."
- They then freed the last child hostage and another group of adults, Tetereviatnikov said.
- The Rangers took a dozen women and children hostage.
- Isn't holding children hostage and threatening their lives contrary to your own principles?
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