Hostages is valid Scrabble Word

Is hostages a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for HOSTAGES in dictionary:

NOUN:

HOSTAGE, a person held as security
a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition

Words related to HOSTAGES

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How to use HOSTAGES in a sentence

But neither oath on sacred ring, nor the risk to their hostages, weighed with Guthrum and his followers when any advantage was to be gained by treachery.
He ravaged the eastern coast with merciless fury, and put ashore all the English hostages at Sandwich, after having cut off their hands and noses.
When Caesar arrived at that place, he demanded hostages, their arms, and the slaves who had deserted to them.
Caesar demands forty hostages from them, and corn for his army, and sends Mandubratius to them.
For all the states of Aquitania sent ambassadors to him and delivered hostages.
The same was done by some of the nobility of Spain, whom they summoned to their assistance, and kept in their camp as hostages.
The city, to which their army had retreated after its defeat, surrendered on terms, hostages having been demanded.
He then ordered the Spanish hostages to be summoned.
The shocking treachery used by the Moors being well known to me, I refused to accept his offers except on his furnishing me with hostages for his good faith.
It was sundown when we got back to the hostages with our spoils.

The mayor and prominent citizens were to surrender themselves as hostages.
Never have men brought so many hostages to this land, as now are coming to the Rhine through him.
Volagases listened favorably to the overtures, and agreed to put into the hands of the Roman commanders the most distinguished members of the royal family as hostages.
Such hostages lived at the expense of the Roman court, and were usually treated with distinction.
A truce was agreed on, and ten Roman youths and as many girls were given up to the Etruscans as hostages.
These couenants being agreed vpon, and hostages taken for assurance, he was set at libertie, and so returned into his countrie.
Then the poor hostages would be slain, first by one party, and afterward, in retaliation, by the other.
They will be forced to give up the rifles and plunder they have taken, and hostages will be demanded of them as a guarantee of further good behavior.
They might hold him and Nanette as hostages for ransom.
Caesar commanded Ariovistus to abstain from introducing any more Germans into Gaul, to restore the hostages to the AEdui, and not to attack the latter or their allies.
It is asserted that three hostages will be executed to-morrow.
Hostages were exchanged, and articles of capitulation signed by both parties.
To save the town from being burnt, the Governor and Bishop became hostages until a ransom had been paid.
You may offer both of us as hostages to the emperor.
The Spaniards delivered the ransom, and demanded the six hostages.
When Sir John was taken prisoner, a sort of treaty had been entered into between the French and English, and hostages were required for prisoners of importance.
From the rest of the senators one hundred and twenty hostages, consisting of their own children, were taken and delivered over to Caius Terentius to be conveyed to Rome.
Among those hostages which Alaric had claimed from the City and taken with him southward was the sister of the two emperors, the daughter of the great Theodosius, Galla Placidia.
Smaragdus was forced to make peace and to give up his hostages.
Now take the keys of my city gates, take the treasure and the hostages made ready for thine Emperor.
About two hundred captives were brought, and chiefs were left as hostages for the safe delivery of others still in the hands of distant tribes.
It appeared that instead of Dick having forced Fortune to stand and deliver, he had been held up himself, and made to give hostages to the enemy.

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