How to Use hostage crisis in a Sentence

hostage crisis

noun
  • Carter was hurt by high inflation and the Iran hostage crisis.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This time, the hostage crisis unfolds on an underground train, not in the air.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Anger is growing at home over the government’s handling of the hostage crisis.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The Iran hostage crisis only served to heighten tensions.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Yes, Darcy hurls her engagement ring at Tom in the midst of the hostage crisis.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The current hostage crisis in Gaza is unlike any other, experts say.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Carter first invoked the statute to resolve the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • None was a greater problem on the international stage than the Iran hostage crisis.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The hostage crisis set the tone for post-revolution relations.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The more he’s drawn into the inmates’ escalating hostage crisis.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Looney said Gutierrez, who was a member of his parish, had his infant son baptized a month before the hostage crisis.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Israeli hostage crisis lasted 843 days.
    — Jordana Miller, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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 incident provided a measure of how politicized the hostage crisis has become.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 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 hostage crisis is unfolding just 100 yards away from them, but most of the employees watch the events as they’re filtered through a camera lens.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The Iranian hostage crisis sealed his fate in the 1980 landslide loss to Reagan.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But a struggling economy and his inability to resolve the Iran hostage crisis likely cost him re-election.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The subsequent 444-day hostage crisis at the embassy in Tehran kindled decades of enmity.
    — Nasser Karimi, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Israelis are still reeling from the shocking losses of October 7 and the unfolding hostage crisis.
    — TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Ebtekar, after her role in the hostage crisis, went on to become a reformist politician in Iran who pushed for environmental protections and women’s rights.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The Bibas family became a symbol of the hostage crisis in Israel, with widespread public campaigns calling for their safe return.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Leon is seeking gender confirmation surgery and his needs come to play a significant role in the climax of the hostage crisis precipitated by his partner.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026

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