"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Davis eventually tried to escape after three years inside when, on September 19, 1937, he and six other convicts took the warden and two guards hostage.
- Prisoners armed with at least two handguns had taken the guards hostage Tuesday night after an escape attempt failed, said Lee Carter, a guard.
- January 1991: In riots at the Shenkoll (Saint Nicholas) maximum security prison, an armed prisoner took several guards hostage.
- He seizes control of the hospital's adjacent wing, holding guards hostage and ordering a lockdown of the building.
- Years later, Lion-Mane orchestrated a prison riot and took the guards hostage.
- After the convicts had taken the guards hostage, they were deciding what to do next.
- He was also arraigned this month on charges that he had held several guards hostage during an uprising at the jail on Aug. 15.
- During the escape attempt the men held a number of guards hostage, but gave up when they failed to cut through the tool-proof bars.
- Security guards were brought into the house to bring order; that order failed as the housemates then held the guards hostage.
- Meanwhile, a group of death row inmates ambush their prison bus and take the guards hostage.
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