How to Use hostage crisis in a Sentence

hostage crisis

noun

• That has proved to be the case during the hostage crisis.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The hostage crisis has roiled Israel and stunned people around the world.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Yes, Darcy hurls her engagement ring at Tom in the midst of the hostage crisis.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
• With the president confined to the White House because of the hostage crisis, Mrs. Carter took to the campaign trail.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• On this day in 1981, the hostage crisis ended, but that wasn't the end of the story - or the suffering - for the hostages and their families.
  — Barry Petersen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
• Those facts, as well as the repercussions of the Iran hostage crisis, left him with a 21% approval rating.
  — M.l. Nestel, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Anger is growing at home over the government’s handling of the hostage crisis.
  — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• During the Iran hostage crisis that followed, Patrick’s mother returned to Iran and was stuck.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
• The hostage crisis is not likely to be solved before a new president enters the Oval Office.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• The current hostage crisis in Gaza is unlike any other, experts say.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The two nations have a history of prisoner swaps dating back to the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2023
• The incident provided a measure of how politicized the hostage crisis has become.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
• Compared with the Iranian hostage crisis—day a hundred and fifteen!—it seemed like no big deal to me, but my mother had a very different reaction.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• But his handling of the war and the hostage crisis has cost him politically and come at a time when the country was dangerously polarized.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Israelis are still reeling from the shocking losses of October 7 and the unfolding hostage crisis.
  — TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
• While Israel has retrieved hostages and the remains of its citizens in the past, the scope and complexity of this hostage crisis is beyond anything the country has faced before.
  — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• In 1980, Carter ran for reelection amid high prices of gasoline and other consumer goods and the Iran hostage crisis, biographer Jonathan Alter wrote.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• In late August, the hostage crisis reached a horrible climax when Hamas executed six Israelis in a tunnel in Rafah.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
• But there are strong divisions over the Cabinet’s handling of the hostage crisis, amid growing concerns that the hostages are incidental to the government’s wider war aims.
  — NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
• More than 40 years ago, President Jimmy Carter struggled to navigate the unfolding Iran hostage crisis at that time.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The ensuing hostage crisis cast a long shadow over Iran’s relations with the United States—one still visible today.
  — Maysam Behravesh, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2019
• An American team of experts is on the ground working with Israel to share intelligence and help with the hostage crisis, according to U.S. officials.
  — Dan De Luce, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran.
  — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2023
• In this way, Washington could finally lance the boil of militant Islamism, which had afflicted America ever since the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.
  — Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2023
• Images of armed women encompassed in black cloth became a familiar sight for Americans during the U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis later that year.
  — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
• The hostage crisis shadowed and essentially crippled Carter’s re-election campaign.
  — Walter Mears, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2023
• Carter's time in office also saw the start of the Iran hostage crisis, and on the domestic front, the first efforts toward developing a policy for energy independence.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2023
• But there is still palpable anger towards Netanyahu’s government for failing to see Hamas’ attacks coming – and the unprecedented hostage crisis this country now faces.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• Yet for many Israelis – fixated for more than eight months on the war with Hamas in Gaza and a traumatic hostage crisis – the prospect of war on an additional front elicits a blend of fatigue and resignation that conflict is perhaps inevitable.
  — Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2024
• When the police realized there was no hostage crisis, Dalton explained to the cops and his parents that an angry kid online had inflicted this situation on them—leaving out the part about his booter service.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024