hold prisoner

Example Sentences

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North Viet Nam is known to hold prisoner 34 American pilots; as many as 200 more, officially listed as missing, may also be in Hanoi's hands.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now Saxon graves hold prisoner for ever the flower of our people; and to attempt to offer an organised opposition to the Norman forces—why, it were sheer madness.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

"Do you mean you have gone to all this trouble without knowing whom you hold prisoner?"

From My Lady of Doubt by Kimball, Alonzo