Sentence examples for was hostage from inspiring English sources
noun
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.
For years, their fate was hostage to Georgia's territorial disputes.
Until Carl Van Doren's 1938 biography, Franklin was hostage to this narrow view of his character.
This meant each side was hostage to the danger that the other would suddenly orchestrate a fanfare and declare itself the winner.
The song was "Hostage," written with Nick Valensi of the Strokes, and its message — feeling powerless to break free of a lover's mistreatment — was a fine match for the expressive bigness of her voice.
Despite – or most probably because of – this, their ambitious, mesmerising second record was one of the few albums that didn't sound as though it was hostage to the trends and fashions of its year.
The network president was hostage to his nanny.
Everything is hostage to it".
And that is hostage holding.
(They were hostage negotiations, with me as the hostage).
He added: "We are hostage to this irresponsibility".
Ambon is hostage to rumors and false reports.
