Synonym: reclaim, recover, redeem, regain, retrieve. Similar words: hansom, winsome, insomnia, insomniac, by means of, by fair means or foul, transit, transfer. Meaning: ['rænsəm] n. 1. money demanded for the return of a captured person 2. payment for the release of someone 3. the act of freeing from captivity or punishment. v. exchange or buy back for money; under threat.
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121. Certainly, Ms. Ransom . Do you have an order number?
122. An emerald of that size, unflawed, would be worth a king's ransom.
123. And by their calculations, liability claims, actual damage to the ships or cargo might cost more than the $1 million or $2- or $3 million ransom," he said.
124. Her kidnapper successfully extorted a £75,000 ransom for her release.
125. Tired of their ceaseless ransom demands, President Thomas Jefferson builds a navy and goes to war against the pirate states of the Barbary Coast of North Africa.
126. The wealthy Mackle family eventually paid the $500, 000 ransom and Barbara Jane, a 20-year-old college student who had been buried in a box a foot and a half underground, was discovered safe.
127. Amounting to a parallel state, these illicit networks engage in arms trafficking, money laundering, extortion, human smuggling, black-market adoptions, and kidnapping for ransom.
128. He offers to ransom his family with a peace treaty, gold, the hand of his daughter in marriage and all the lands west of the Euphrates River.
129. The hoard may have been ransom, or booty, or a votive thanks.
130. He claims the Dutch governor of Curacao will pay his ransom.
131. The Saudi supertanker seized by Somali pirates in the world's biggest ever hijacking has been freed following a reported ransom payment of $3m.
132. Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies!
133. The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.
134. They took away the boy and held him to ransom.
135. The kidnapper asked for a ransom of fifty thousand dollars.
136. The hijackers released the hostage two days later because they got the ransom money.
137. A bus-load of schoolchildren were held ransom until the gang were given a plane.
138. Last Incan emperor of Peru (525-533). He was captured by the Spaniards, convicted of plotting against Pizarro,(http://sentencedict.com) and executed by garrote despite his agreement to a vast ransom.
139. The president has said the United States will never pay ransom for the hostages.
140. Meanwhile, Jinfeng gets Mingzhang's bank book and pays the ransom for him.
141. We present the short story "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story.
142. A spokesman for the ship's owners, Vela International Marine, a subsidiary of the Saudi state oil company, Saudi Aramco, refused to comment on the ship's reported release or any ransom payments.
143. I bought a leg of lamb in the supermarket and it cost a king's ransom.
144. A few days later, the good student returned with the ransom money.
145. Does the fund ransom the essential number day? Charge for trouble number?
146. In fact,Luke excises that part of Mark when he's copying that part of Mark, and he leaves out that ransom passage from Mark because that doesn't fit his Christology.
147. The abductors are demanding millions of Naira as ransom for his release.
148. In Rio, nearly forty people have been held to ransom this year alone.
149. The Somali pirates have hijacked more than a dozen ships and crews, including a Saudi Arabia-owned supertanker laden with crude oil. They want $10 million in ransom for the tanker.
150. There are reports that the owners of the German vessel, the Hansa Stavanger, paid about $2.5 million in ransom, although the company has not confirmed this.
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