Sentence examples for become hostage from inspiring English sources

We become hostage to disease.

But now Serbia has become hostage to the general.

HBO has become hostage to its own success.

They have become hostage to the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.

Such referendums can easily become hostage to general feelings of hostility to the European Union.

Secrets belong to a small assortment of individuals, and inevitably become hostage to private agendas.

It was also feared that American medical students on the island might become hostages.

They – quite accidentally – have become hostages and now are going through all this.

It is rare that commercial airlines become hostages to political disputes, but there are precedents.

"You become hostages of the rhetoric used when you deal with your own voters.

Israel's government is accountable to its citizens and will not allow them to become hostages of Hamas's terror.