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Ransom
"Ransom" in a Sentence (21 examples)
The hijacker demanded a ransom of two million dollars.
The man on the phone told me that if I don't pay the ransom, I'll never see my little Johnny again!
Tom withdrew three hundred thousand dollars from the bank to pay the ransom.
My sacrifice will remain forever in their souls and my blood will be the price of their ransom.
Tom refused to pay the ransom.
Tom and Mary agreed to pay a ransom to have their daughter released.
The ransom money was stolen before it was delivered to Tom's kidnappers.
The gang agreed to release Tom for a ransom of $100,000.
Fadil received a ransom note.
Layla received a ransom call.
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They were held for two million dollars ransom.
They were held to ransom.
Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.
His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.
As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor, Hermes says, his remaining sons at Troy “'would give three times as much ransom / for you, who are alive, were Atreus' son Agamemnon / to recognize you.'”
prisoners hopeless of ransom
Till the fair slave be rendered to her sire; And ransom-free restored to his abode
punished with imprisonment and ransom at the King's will
to ransom prisoners from an enemy
And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
Terrorists will continue to hold few detainees in undisclosed locations in order to ransom them for money or some other material profit, […]
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