Sentence examples for took hostage from inspiring English sources

The Taliban took hostage the plane's Russian pilots and crew.

Market traders took hostage policemen who had seized their contraband goods.

Rebels killed four Kenyan peacekeepers this week and took hostage at least 92 U.N. troops and civilians.

In Suva, the capital, rebels freed 9 of the 27 government members they took hostage on May 19.

"Our government took hostage our basic rights not to be tortured and to decide the size of our family years ago.

On Oct. 10, he took hostage a freelance Court TV reporter who was interviewing him at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

More controversially, it took hostages and kidnapped people for ransom.

They stormed the building and took hostages.

They took hostages.

A third suspect took hostages in a Paris grocery store.

"We've been taken hostage".