Sentence examples for like a hostage from inspiring English sources
He looked like a hostage.
"It's like a hostage crisis," he said.
That makes him feel "like a hostage," he said.
WHEN Indonesia deals with foreign donors these days, the talks are much like a hostage negotiation.
Trump spoke with his eyes down, like a hostage under duress.
If you're caught in a traffic pattern, you can feel like a hostage.
Because I don't know about you, but I don't like being a hostage.
A3 Muhammad Mamdouh Qutb, an Egyptian diplomat who was taken hostage on Thursday for four days and then released, offered a glimpse in an interview into what it was like for a hostage to be held captive by Iraq's insurgency.
It sounded like a hostage-taking, with Mair the man in the explosive vest: If you don't give him what he wants, I can't answer for what he'll do.
"In calls like this, it's almost like a hostage-negotiation situation in which the call taker is trying to slow things down, get as much information as possible and establish a relationship with a stranger," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit group focused on improving police techniques.
When De Martino recalls the farrago in Berlin ("The label learned quickly, leave us to get on with it, because when we get pressured…") he sounds like a hostage-taker, a jumpy one who's just placated the encircling police for another hour by sending out an ear.
