Hostage is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HOSTAGE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person held as security
• a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition
• person who is illegally held prisoner
• A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
• a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

Words related to HOSTAGE

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Words that contain HOSTAGE

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How to use HOSTAGE in a sentence

• I had with me only Pedro and the Moorish hostage mentioned before.
• I gave her the locket which made some of the trouble as a sort of hostage for the future.
• Had they succeeded, the pirates could have held the people of the Earth-Moon system hostage to their demands.
• One elderly gentleman told me how he had been seized by the Germans as a hostage and threatened with death by hanging.
• George Castriot was son of an Albanian prince, delivered as a hostage to Amurath II.
• One of their young chiefs, named Theodoric, was sent as a hostage to Constantinople, and there learned much.
• King John was to be released and his son held as hostage until the enormous ransom was paid.
• He promised to pay, and sent his eldest son, Dan Bahader Sing, a lad of eighteen, as a hostage for the payment to the Nazim.
• Never being an official, than which no truer word could be writ, he was wont to give ready hostage to his official fortunes.
• Yield thee now as hostage, no shame shall it be to thee.
• This said, they bear the shrieking and reluctant Freya away as a hostage, and vanish in the distance.
• Pedro de Castro, the name of this refugee, a Spaniard, informed us that for some time past he had been held as hostage by Thedori.
• A little later, upon receiving the hostage, John, he retired to his own country.
• Let him come here, alone and unattended, and thus serve as a hostage for his own good faith.
• We drove up the long avenue of tall, stately pines, and found her sitting with her husband and their little hostage to fortune enjoying the glorious mellow sunshine.
• The Pope remains a prisoner in the Vatican? Well, here is Umberto, a kind of hostage.
• Among the sixteen was little Alexis, the hostage Indian boy.
• The Moorish princess who had become a Gothic queen was now a hostage in his hands, and her charms moved his susceptible heart.
• He is in a strange country, forlorn, homesick, a hostage of fate and personal misfortune.
• This placed Washington in a very trying position, more especially as his humanity was touched by the situation of the unlucky hostage.
• Consider, my sister, if you, who are a Catholic, were once in their hands, you would become a hostage for me, and prevent my design.
• After some remonstrances and entreaties, he had set her husband and brother-in-law at liberty, but detained her as a hostage for them.
• Harald the hostage, not seeing him, walked back towards the boat bearing the two oars over his shoulder.
• He believed Katherine to be a wealthy heiress of Sir John Penwick, who was being held as hostage at some point in America.
• Atahualpa considered this doubt of safety as very strange, especially as they had him in their hands as an hostage, together with his wives, children, and brothers.
• Nevertheless, if my presence can really be of any assistance in uniting two or more parties, I am ready to go anywhere, either as a mediator, or, if necessary, as a hostage.
• And therewithal was made hostage on both parties, and made it as sure as it might be, that whether party had the victory, so to end.
• Bonacieux away, and convey her to a place of safety, and there, if matters required, make her a hostage.
• However that may be, after one of his three sieges of Rome, Alaric carried Galla Placidia off as a hostage.
• Her red lips, saucy eyes, and opulent figure were too seductive a spoil to part with, General Sheremetief decided, and she was left behind, a by no means reluctant hostage.
• Now, I am not going to be in jeopardy here any longer, nor let myself be kept hostage for his Highness.
• Keeping our chief as a hostage, we passed to the other village, and succeeded in recovering the rest of the guns, and about a third of the other goods.
• Therefore Hugh hath made himself an hostage for thy life, well knowing that if any harm befell thee from his Saxons thy Normans would slay him without remedy.
• One hostage that he had given to Fortune had been taken away, and a certain recklessness took possession of him.
• This Englishman placed himself in my hands freely as a hostage.
• I was her hostage, and, though it killed me, I would hold her to the last inch of her bond.
• The Indians, dismayed at the capture of their cacique, offered large quantities of gold for his ransom, but the Adelantado preferred to keep him as a hostage for peace.

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