14 example sentences using ransom.
Ransom used in a sentence
Ransom in a sentence as a noun
I'm guessing someone paid scribd their ransom fee.
Time to hold the government ransom about this exploit and collect my millions.
The activity log reads like a ransom timeline.
Unless you are rich there is little odds of ransom, and the risk/reward of selling or keeping the child for your own seems high.
When their employer refused to pay the ransom, the kidnappers granted each a last wish before killing them.
The sons kidnap the millionaire's wife for ransom and **** her when the businessman fails to follow instructions.
The whole "if I don't do this, the project will sink / things will be destroyed" is a self-imposed ransom situation that managers count on.
Ransom in a sentence as a verb
I find the author's righteous indignation that he did not receive the ransom he thought he deserved amusing at best.
They can hold out longer than Level 3 can, because if Level 3 doesn't agree to pay Comcast's ransom, someone else might, and Level 3 will lose their customers to whoever pays Comcast's ransom.
Violence escalates in the village to the point that kidnappings for ransom become a popular way to finance the importation of ***** for resale.
If I'm reading this correctly, the problem is that something that the author thinks should be free costs money, so Facebook is now "demanding that a $365 million dollar ransom gets collected from all the Mom & Pop businesses who use Facebook.
" [6]Since then, things have changed slightly - UAC under Windows, for instance, means applications now only have the ability to steal and hold your highly valuable and personal documents for ransom, but hey at least these sneaky trojans don't have admin rights!
Plane cockpits are all but impenetrable[1] - the only reason that some of the 9/11 hijackers were successful was that the standard protocol for dealing with hijackers assumed that hijackers wanted to take the plane hostage for ransom, not use the plane as a weapon.
Unreasonable, unpredictable, unapproachable, blaming, personalizing, forcing agreement and then holding you ransom to what you agreed, applying a double standard to their own advantage, ignoring, controlling, and snooping.
Ransom definitions
money demanded for the return of a captured person
payment for the release of someone
the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
exchange or buy back for money; under threat
See also: redeem