"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These casinos - they don't have to keep people hostage.
- Four young Vietnamese men held about 30 people hostage in an electronics store for more than eight hours.
- In 1977, a total of twelve gunmen took about 150 people hostage at three sites around Washington.
- They held over 60 people hostage in the town.
- This was the man who held the lives of innocent people hostage.
- Three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital after doing a smaller crime.
- Punishing supporters using censorship makes the data and the people hostages.
- Don't hold those people hostage to something we can't control.
- Discussion question: Should governments negotiate with terrorists who are holding people hostage?
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