How to Use ransom in a Sentence

ransom

1 of 2 noun

• The ransom note explained the terms under which she would be released.
• The family is willing to pay ransom for his release.
• The kidnappers demanded a ransom of one million dollars.
• Quinn explained that Huskins had been held for $8,500 ransom.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• Still frames from a ransom video sent to Neo Lu’s parents in China.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Or Poles could trade the top pick for a king’s ransom to a quarterback-needy team — there are plenty of those in the NFL.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
• Biden is giving the regime in Iran nearly $16 billion as ransom for five hostages.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Vice's Motherboard obtained a copy of the ransom email sent to Riot Games.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
• All the group is instructed to do is watch the little girl overnight to collect a $50 million ransom.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
• A few days before funds were set to run out, the administration agreed to pay the ransom.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• The ransom: Cartwright must steal a top-secret file from MI5 headquarters.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Her kidnapping’s too much for Davenport, who gives in and pays the ransom.
  — EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• The wave of ransom demands picked up this spring amid a broader increase in safety threats to stores, say retail groups.
  — Byalan Murray, Fortune, 26 June 2023
• The ransoms, even small ones, are painful in a country where more than 60 percent of the population lives in poverty.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• The group then charges a ransom in exchange for releasing the data and not publishing it.
  — James Farrell, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The attackers' plan was to kidnap Denise and return her after Aaron paid a ransom.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
• Armed gangs terrorize and abduct people for ransom in the northwest.
  — James Bwala, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• The official said no ransom was paid and no concession was made to captors.
  — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Authorities said the search ended after Ross left a ransom note at the house of the girl’s family.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Bad actors may break in, encrypt files, and demand ransom.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• The local gangs know which of the block’s residents have relatives abroad who could afford a ransom.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• The man told the officer that he was forced to cheat victims online and had asked to leave, but his captors demanded a ransom of around $2,000.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• This places a sense of urgency on the health system to get control and allows hackers to demand high ransoms.
  — Forrester, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Matter stole a stone chair dedicated to Davis from a cemetery in Selma, and held it for ransom.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, but all are treated as righteous freely by his grace because of a ransom that was paid by Christ Jesus.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
• There were threats of kidnappings and demands for ransom payments.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• At the height of the first wave of TTP violence in 2008, his younger brother was kidnapped and released only after a ransom payment.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• One key issue is whether to pay a ransom to unlock systems after hackers have seized control of them.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• No ransom was paid and no concessions were made to Woodke's captors, Kirby said.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Her sister has been kidnapped and is being held in Cartagena; the ransom is the treasure map which Turner must bring at once to Colombia — or else.
  — Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023

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ransom

2 of 2 verb

• He was held captive for a week before he was ransomed and returned to his family.
• Mr. Braziller donated proceeds from the sale of 1,200 copies to ransom the work.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• The hackers then request ransom to release the data back to the cities.
  — Eric A. Howald Of The Keizertimes, oregonlive, 23 June 2020
• And their plan was to steal Abraham Lincoln’s dead body and ransom it back to the city of Chicago.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
• Should countries like Hungary be able to hold the rest of the bloc to ransom with its veto, and how can the EU reform that?
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 31 May 2022
• Louis was ransomed and the original plan had to be abandoned.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
• Now there’s ransom debt to pay, and another asylum case to make.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• The three planned for more than a year to ransom the children for $5 million from the state Board of Education.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• They were held for five days until their families raised about $4,000 to ransom each of them.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• In a nearby room with a view of the cable cars, a scared, desperate couple receives ransom terms from a stranger on the phone.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 22 June 2020
• Say a client is living in a territory where kidnap and ransom for profit is a day-to-day threat.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 June 2022
• After a shady investor steals their new invention, Nick, Dale and Kurt conspire to kidnap the man’s adult son and ransom him to pay off their debts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Identify who to call for help in the event of an attack and make decisions in advance about how to respond to ransom demands.
  — oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2022
• The buyers stand to make even more by extracting credit card info, ransoming accounts, and so on.
  — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• But as time passed, the men seemed more apologetic and admitted ransoming Western hostages.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• Both the group's blog site and ransom negotiation portal shut down, CBS News confirmed.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 July 2021
• The company caved to hackers’ ransom demands within hours of the attack, Bloomberg News reported.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 14 May 2021
• By holding all those things to ransom behind crypto tollbooths, the holders hoped to convert their tokens to real money.
  — WIRED, 23 Jan. 2023
• Extremists continue to hold the region to ransom, and banditry has led to the killing of thousands and the abduction of many including schoolchildren.
  — Chinedu Asadu, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2021
• Pilots making emergency landings in the desert risked being captured by local nomadic tribes who would then attempt to ransom them.
  — Miquel Ros, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• Her main contact is with a wealthy woman named Charlotte (Edie Falco), whose own son was captured and later successfully ransomed.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
• There’s also the chance investigators in at least some cases can recover from criminals ransom that has been paid.
  — Eric Tucker, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• Wampanoag abducted settlers and held them ransom, and settlers pillaged and destroyed Native villages.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2020
• The spec, an action thriller, follows a kidnapping and ransom negotiator tasked with finding a nine-year-old boy who went missing on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 30 Aug. 2021
• With many companies reluctant to talk about security breaches and ransom payments, some experts wonder if the scale of the problem is much bigger than publicly disclosed.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 1 June 2021
• Yet huge corporations are successfully held to ransom every day by cyber crooks demanding millions for the safe return of data.
  — Al Ramich, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• The purpose behind these types of attacks can vary, but they are generally designed to steal trade secrets, embarrass business leaders and tamper with, destroy or ransom data.
  — Perry Carpenter, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• Initially, authorities believed the paintings would re-appear quickly, either to be sold on the black market or used as a bargaining chip or ransom in criminal circles.
  — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 12 Apr. 2021
• Ransomware attacks hold data or access to computer systems ransom and demand money in return for releasing control back to the owner.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 11 May 2021
• The concept is similar to that of ransomware attacks and digital extortion in which law enforcement encourages victims not to pay hackers’ ransom demands so they will be disincentivized to keep trying.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024