RANSOM in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for RANSOM, such as:

1. They are refusing to pay ransom for her release.
2. I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom.
3. It was Rita's father, who brought his daughter's ransom in person.
4. Why can't a body take a club and ransom them as soon as they get here?
5. He was a slave ten years ago and was ransomed later by an old rich woman.

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 Meanings and Examples of RANSOM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ransom
 n.  release of property or person in return for payment of a demanded price; price paid for such release
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  From your master," said he, "I will accept neither arms nor ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Tell down thy ransom, I say, and rejoice that at such rate thou canst redeem thee from a dungeon, the secrets of which few have returned to tell.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  If thou meanest yonder Saxon churls," said Front-de-Boeuf, "their ransom will depend upon other terms than thine.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  It is a trifling ransom, Saxon, and thou wilt owe gratitude to the moderation which accepts of it in exchange of your persons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  "Neither does the ransom include the Lady Rowena," said De Bracy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  I claim," said Athelstane, "an honourable imprisonment, with due care of my board and of my couch, as becomes my rank, and as is due to one who is in treaty for ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  That will be but blind trust," said the Outlaw; "we will retain thee, Prior, and send them to fetch thy ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  It remained that the Jew should produce some security for the ransom which he was to pay on the Prior's account, as well as upon his own.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  "This must be our Friar Tuck, for a count's ransom," said Richard, looking at Ivanhoe.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  The other most obvious explanation is that the child has been kidnapped for the purpose of levying ransom.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
12  From the police point of view he will have kidnapped the boy for the purpose of ransom.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
13  Carlini besought his chief to make an exception in Rita's favor, as her father was rich, and could pay a large ransom.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
14  Carlini flew joyfully to Rita, telling her she was saved, and bidding her write to her father, to inform him what had occurred, and that her ransom was fixed at three hundred piastres.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
15  It was Rita's father, who brought his daughter's ransom in person.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
Example Sentence:
1  After the ransom is paid and your dead body is found, I will shed many tears for the reality of your unreason.
2  Why can't a body take a club and ransom them as soon as they get here?
3  They demanded a huge ransom for the return of the little girl whom they had kidnapped.
4  They are refusing to pay ransom for her release.
5  He was a slave ten years ago and was ransomed later by an old rich woman.