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
• Carter was elected president in 1976 but saw his presidency marred by continuing stagflation and the Iran hostage crisis.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024