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Ransom in a sentence

Ransom meaning

  1. Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
  2. The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
  3. A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.

Synonyms of Ransom

ransom money change exchange redeem retrieval recovery defrayment defrayal payment cost interchange

Using Ransom

  • The main meaning on this page is: Money paid for the freeing of a hostage. | The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration. | A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
  • Useful related words include: ransom money, change, exchange, redeem.
  • In the example corpus, ransom often appears in combinations such as: for ransom, the ransom, ransom payments.

Context around Ransom

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Ransom

  • In this selection, "ransom" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, demanded, maverick, orion, payments, project and money stand out and add context to how "ransom" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include afford the ransom to leave and any collected ransom over us. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "ransom" sits close to words such as admired, canterbury and dough, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with ransom

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

And it was perfect for generating ransom notes too! (9 words)

A family source said that the abductors are asking for N5 million ransom. (13 words)

Alternatively, Telephus held Orestes for ransom, the ransom being Achilles' aid in healing the wound. (15 words)

An updated section of Indigo’s website in response to the breach on Feb. 8 — lists a number of reasons for not paying the ransom, including that there is no way to guarantee the data won’t be released even after the payment is received. (45 words)

An unusually low ransom for the times (around $50 today) was to be paid for each Frank in the city, whether man, woman, or child, but Saladin, against the wishes of his treasurers, allowed many families who could not afford the ransom to leave. (44 words)

A second high-ranking Holy See official told a Vatican court on Friday that Pope Francis had authorised spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali. (43 words)

And it was perfect for generating ransom notes too! (9 words)

Example sentences (20)

Investigation Officer informed ATC that Lateef Ullah and Riaz are involved in ransom and facilitation of terrorists while claimed that one culprit had facilitated the outlaws and the other has demanded ransom using Afghan sims.

The ransom note includes links to Vice Society’s dark web leak site containing the company’s stolen files, and several email addresses used by the gang for negotiating a ransom with victims.

Europol says that free tools provided as part of its three-year-old “No More Ransom” project prevented ransomware gangs from making at least $108M in profits — No More Ransom project is celebrating its three-year birthday today.

Las Cruces Police Department shared the plea for help in locating 3-year-old Maverick Ransom and his 4-year-old brother Orion Ransom.

Uganda Denies Paying Ransom for Release of Tourist, Driver (Yesterday) - Ugandan police deny a ransom was paid in the rescue of American tourist Kimberly Sue.

Although it instructed victims that their computers had been encrypted and requested a ransom in Bitcoin, the malware was not genuinely designed to generate the attacker revenues through ransom payments.

Alternatively, Telephus held Orestes for ransom, the ransom being Achilles' aid in healing the wound.

An unusually low ransom for the times (around $50 today) was to be paid for each Frank in the city, whether man, woman, or child, but Saladin, against the wishes of his treasurers, allowed many families who could not afford the ransom to leave.

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For instance, though Ransom negatively criticised "The Waste Land" for its "extreme disconnection", Ransom was not completely condemnatory of Eliot's work and admitted that Eliot was a talented poet.

In early 1973, with the ransom money still missing, The Oregon Journal republished the serial numbers and offered $1,000 to the first person to turn in a ransom bill to the newspaper or any FBI field office.

Slavery was less common than ransom, especially for prisoners of war; the large numbers of prisoners taken during raids and battles every year ensured that ransom money flowed freely between the Christian and Muslim states.

Abductors of the wife of Pastor Johnson Ajiboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Kwara State, Mrs Bola Ajiboye, have detained a man sent to deliver the ransom to them.

According to researchers at Sentinel One, an affiliate gets 90 per cent of any collected ransom over US$3 million.

A family source said that the abductors are asking for N5 million ransom.

After bonding with the young daughter in his charge (Fanning), Washington's character is brutally ambushed and left for dead by a cartel of kidnappers, who abduct the girl for her ransom insurance.

Although the criminal gangs are largely motivated by financial gains from ransom payments, some have forged ties with jihadists from northeast Nigeria where they are waging a 14-year old insurgency to establish a Caliphate.

And it was perfect for generating ransom notes too!

An updated section of Indigo’s website in response to the breach on Feb. 8 — lists a number of reasons for not paying the ransom, including that there is no way to guarantee the data won’t be released even after the payment is received.

A police corporal who heard Fitzgerald's radio call and heard the gunshots saw two young men fleeing the area, Ransom said.

A second high-ranking Holy See official told a Vatican court on Friday that Pope Francis had authorised spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali.

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Common combinations with ransom

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "ransom" in a sentence?
An example: "Investigation Officer informed ATC that Lateef Ullah and Riaz are involved in ransom and facilitation of terrorists while claimed that one culprit had facilitated the outlaws and the other has demanded ransom using Afghan sims." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "ransom" from authentic English texts.
What does "ransom" mean?
Ransom means: Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
What are synonyms of "ransom"?
Common synonyms of "ransom" include: ransom money, change, exchange, redeem, retrieval, recovery, defrayment, defrayal. Plus 3 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "ransom" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "ransom", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.