1. hostage

noun. ['ˈhɑːstɪdʒ'] a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.

Rhymes with Hostage

• advantage
• advantage
• armitage
• cabotage
• cottage
• disadvantage
• footage
• frontage
• heritage
• mintage
• nottage
• outage
• percentage
• portage
• postage
• prestage
• prestidge
• reportage
• shortage
• vantage

Sentences with hostage

1. Noun, singular or mass
If the player rolls odd numbers on both dice, they rescue the hostage.

2. Verb, base form
Airlines can't hold you hostage if you want to extend your stay for a leisure or work trip.

Quotes about hostage

1. After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.
- Amanda Lindhout

2. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?
- Steven Wright