How to Use abduct in a Sentence

abduct

verb

• Who would abduct him, torture him for days and toss him onto a rubbish tip?
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• Anton here tried to abduct a 12-year-old and then fled from the police.
  — NBC News, 4 Sep. 2022
• Some nuns — aided by doctors, nurses and midwives — began to abduct babies to meet demand.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• The subtext was clear: that pedophiles are using children as bait to abduct other children at Target.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 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
• Shvets, a former soldier in Ukraine's military who was loyal to Kyiv, knew the gunmen would either kill or abduct and torture him.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 5 Oct. 2022
• Shvets, a former soldier in Ukraine’s military who was loyal to Kyiv, knew the gunmen would either kill or abduct and torture him.
  — Hanna Arhirova, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2022
• But the past won’t be so easily left behind, as Ettore’s mother and brother abduct him and set him on a course of conversion therapy that includes ruinous electroshock treatment.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• Whirty was convicted of trying to abduct the Newton woman, served five years in Massachusetts, then was returned to Texas to serve out the rest of his life sentence.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Davila was arrested earlier on Friday after she was found with the vehicle officers suspect was used to abduct the infant, according to police.
  — Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2022
• One day, the pimp saw her on the street and tried to abduct her.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• That man had lived close to where Kathie, Kandice and Sheri were abducted.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When news of a young boy being abducted from Brooklyn starts to make the rounds on the news, Inez squirrels the boy away in a rented room and gets him some fake papers.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• Advertisement Neal, 41, is accused of abducting a 9-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl.
  — Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 25 July 2023
• The caller told Veronica she’d been abducted, forced to use another name, and had been abused by the people who raised her.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 25 July 2024
• Shortly after, the Earl disappeared, and the press began speculating that he’d been abducted by the Mafia to force him to hand over his wealth.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• Shlomi Berger’s 19-year-old daughter, Agam, was abducted two days after the start of her army service along the border with Gaza.
  — Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
• Nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted, then murdered on her way to an Arkansas bowling alley to surprise her mother in December 1994.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2024
• Waterman then kidnapped and abducted Bush, driving her from Maysville to the Waterman residence in Pineville.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024