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.