Hostages
Prisoners
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- victims and hostages
- victims and prisoners
- tokens and hostages
- tokens and prisoners
- sureties and hostages
- sureties and prisoners
- losers and hostages
- losers and prisoners
- pledges and hostages
- pledges and prisoners
- convicts and hostages
- convicts and prisoners
- guaranties and hostages
- guaranties and prisoners
Both words in one sentence
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In the scene where civilian prisoners/hostages are executed after the Wolverines make their first kills of Soviet soldiers, Bella is clearly far more disgusted by the town mayor's horrified reaction than by the defiance of the executed hostages.
Source: Film / Red Dawn (1984) -
None of them ever forgets that they are the Baron's prisoners and hostages meant to keep their families in line.
Source: Gilded Cage - Rags to Royalty: The House of Stuart's rise from hostages and prisoners to being the dominant force in the British isles.
Source: Series / A History Of Scotland
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