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hostage in English:

1. prisoner prisoner


The police are pursuing an escaped prisoner.
They released the prisoner.
The escaped prisoner hasn't been caught yet.
Everybody showed sympathy toward the prisoner.
The prisoner denied that he had killed a policeman.
The king ordered that the prisoner should be set free.
The prisoner broke away from the guards who were holding him.
In the absence of firm evidence the prisoner was set free.
the prisoners have t.v. s in their cells
Joe was believed to have shot the prisoner.
A prisoner is more obsessed with the idea of escaping than his warden by the idea of watching over him. Thus, a prisoner will always manage to escape.
He could not see other prisoners most of the time.
After being whipped, the prisoner replied.
He's a political prisoner.
Last night, three prisoners escaped from a maximum‐security