How to Use abduct in a Sentence

abduct

verb

• Gangs in the area are known to abduct people for ransom.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
• Two years before the murder, he was charged with trying to abduct a schoolgirl who stood less than 5 feet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2021
• The reconnaissance team tries to abduct Campion and kill Mother.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020
• He was arrested nearly two months later, after attempting to abduct another girl.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2020
• Larson trolled the girl online and then flew from from his home in Virginia to Fresno in order to abduct her, authorities told Fox News.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2020
• Bobbie Jo Stinnett was a 23-year-old wife and mother to be when Montgomery hatched an evil plot to brutally murder her and abduct her unborn child.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 11 Jan. 2021
• Maloney, who was abducted by one of her parents as a child and lived in several different countries, also feels strongly in advocating for child-abduction victims.
  — Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
• One day, the pimp saw her on the street and tried to abduct her.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• Anton here tried to abduct a 12-year-old and then fled from the police.
  — NBC News, 4 Sep. 2022
• That man had lived close to where Kathie, Kandice and Sheri were abducted.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• The records show that a box was checked identifying a risk that one of the parents would abduct the children.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• As the Lapith tribe carried the gift of a girdle to the shrine of Artemis, centaurs tried to abduct the Lapith women.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• The riders wore turquoise and pink – the colors that Sara wore when she was abducted.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2024
• Who would abduct him, torture him for days and toss him onto a rubbish tip?
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• As many as nine Haitian journalists have also been abducted since the start of the year.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• Police believe the killer was the one who abducted Eleia.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 5 May 2024
• The next day he was abducted and murdered by armed men in RSF uniforms.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
• The show’s title refers to a legendary creature left in the place of a baby that’s been abducted (perhaps by fairies or trolls).
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• The police determined that the men did not abduct Laci Peterson.
  — Jennifer Pirone, ABC News, 14 May 2021
• Earlier this year, a 3-year-old boy was abducted by a monkey that carried the child up a cliff.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023
• The film begins six years after the end of Halloween 5, with Myers and Jamie being abducted by a cult.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• And a yet another was abducted from a parking lot and raped.
  — President Joe Biden, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2024
• The group was abducted Friday in Matamoros in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The college student was abducted in the parking lot on her way inside.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
• Peter, who hasn’t been back to Earth since he was abducted as a child, decides to go home and give his grandpa (Gregg Henry) a hug.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
• Some pieces of The Sims will never translate to the real world — in the game, you can get abducted by aliens, give birth to 100 babies and visit with a vampire.
  — Chloe Meister, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• The program began by abducting children (with parental consent) and forcing them to embark on a 500-mile hike across the Utah desert.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
• Hansen, who died in prison in 2014, was known to abduct his victims, drive or fly them to remote wilderness locations and then make a sport out of hunting them down.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is held captive in a hotel-like prison for 15 years then suddenly released, tasked with figuring out why he was abducted, and by whom.
  — Megan Vick, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
• An Ohio man wearing a blonde wig, makeup and pearls was arrested for attempting to abduct an 11-year-old boy from outside his home in the city of Alliance, according to police.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024