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Hostage Pronunciation

Pronounce Hostage as HH OW S T AH G EH.

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    Hostage phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'hostage'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of hostage: /hoʊstæɡɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of hostage: /hɒstæɡɛ/

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    List of meaning for hostage

    hostage, surety(noun)

    a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

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    hostage in sentence

    1. Since Greg is a hostage negotiator, he is trained to perform a quick analysis of a difficult situation.

    2. As the young man was able to easily convince his hostage takers to let him go unharmed, this act showed his exemplification of brilliance and bravery.

    3. Edging toward the door, the hostage tried to move slowly so that she wouldn’t tip off her kidnapper.

    4. The women were tortured and endured degradation while they were held hostage for three years.

    5. Sending the police inside will only make the hostage situation more volatile.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term hostage

    You can't hold the future of Cuba hostage to what happened in the past.

    – President Barack Obama

    (Given) our long historical independent neutral stance, it's common for us to be the middle man in hostage releases, we provide transportation from Boko Haram to the Nigerian government.

    – Jason Straziuso

    The fact is, President Trump has chosen to hold hostage critical services for the health, safety and well-being of the American people and withhold the paychecks of 800,000 innocent workers across the nation, many of them veterans.

    – Nancy Pelosi

    Under presidents of both parties, such major shifts in American foreign policy as diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China, the resolution of the Iran hostage crisis, and the conclusion of the Vietnam War were all conducted without congressional approval.

    – Vice President Joe Biden

    The White House position remains the same, that we will not negotiate the status of 690,000 unlawful immigrants while hundreds of millions of taxpaying Americans, including hundreds of thousands of our troops in uniform and border agents protecting our country, are held hostage by Senate Democrats.

    – Marc Short

    Members of the RSP burst into the room of the cabinet of ministers at around 1430 and took hostage the president of Burkina Faso Michel Kafando, the Prime Minister Yacouba Izaac Zida, the minister of public administration ... and the minister of housing.

    – Moumina Cheriff Sy

    You don't hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues, this is our top law enforcement office. Nobody denies that she's well-qualified. We need to go ahead and get her done.

    – President Barack Obama on Friday

    That system of hostage justice, I think, does not bear scrutiny.

    – Jeff Kingston

    The GDL is taking Deutsche Bahn customers hostage for egoistical reasons to get more power.

    – The BDA

    I raised it immediately with the Iranians. It was not put out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the government directly, it was put out I think by the military over there, the (Revolutionary Guard), who is opposed to what we are doing. the challenge is three or four years ago, we wouldn't have known who to call ... and it could have grown into a major kind of hostage confrontation the way it had previously.

    – John Kerry

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