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
  • Carter was hurt by high inflation and the Iran hostage crisis.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The Iranian hostage crisis sealed his fate in the 1980 landslide loss to Reagan.
    Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Anger is growing at home over the government’s handling of the hostage crisis.
    Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The infant with a then-toothless smile has come to represent the helplessness and anger over the hostage crisis.
    Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Yet his term was also marked by challenges, such as the Iran hostage crisis, which overshadowed his re-election bid in 1980.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 30 Dec. 2024
  • His one term in office included the U.S. energy shortage and the Iran hostage crisis.
    CBS News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Donald Trump’s implicit threat to use military force will hopefully put an end to the Iran-Hamas led hostage crisis.
    Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, Trump could get a Reagan-like boost in support if there is a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian hostage crisis.
    Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The incident provided a measure of how politicized the hostage crisis has become.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Carter became enmeshed in a primary fight with Ted Kennedy and was absorbed by the demands of hyper-inflation and a hostage crisis.
    Cary Goodman, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • One reason for that perception is the Iranian hostage crisis for the last 444 days of Carter's presidency.
    Courtney Dorning, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • While the Iran hostage crisis also doomed Carter’s reelection bid, a third-party candidate didn’t help him either.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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