How to Use abductee in a Sentence

abductee

noun

• Tokyo claims the North has not been fully transparent about the fate of the abductees and whether any are still alive.
  — Eric Talmadge, Fox News, 23 July 2018
• The experience of the African abductees in the war was more tragic.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• At the time, Boko Haram warned that the other abductees would be killed in one month if its demands were not met.
  — Amanda Erickson, The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
• Some of the abductees were tortured and dumped by the wayside, while others were never seen again.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2019
• This is the testimony of a survivor, an abductee who was held captive by Hamas.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2023
• Abe has sought to strengthen ties with Trump in a bid to ensure that his concerns about the abductees and about mid- and short-range missiles that threaten Japan and not the U.S. are addressed.
  — Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2018
• Boko Haram leaders should ensure the safe release of children and all other abductees.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 7 May 2017
• The abductees' families last Friday urged Abe to seek Trump's help, saying this could be their last chance to win their aging loved ones' release.
  — Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• According to a statement today from Israel's directorate in charge of abductees, 31 of the hostages are believed to be dead.
  — Marin Scott, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
• In the fall of 2002, their lives changed again when Japan and North Korea agreed to repatriate surviving Japanese abductees.
  — Jonathan Cheng and Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• Some of those girls were released years later, but thousands of other abductees who didn't make the headlines remain missing.
  — Alexander Smith /, NBC News, 19 June 2018
• Gosling returned to host for the season 43 premiere, and the pair — along with Strong — resurrected their alien abductee characters.
  — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Families of the other abductees are getting old and many see the Trump-Kim summit as their last chance for a breakthrough in determining their fate.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2018
• Since then, however, there has been little mention of abductees.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018
• Thousands of abductees have been thrust, untreated, into communities that are not equipped to tend to their wounds.
  — TIME.com, 27 June 2017
• President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet relatives of these abductees next week as part of a 12-day trip to Asia that begins on Friday.
  — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2017
• About 12 such abductees are believed to remain in North Korea, U.S. officials said.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 29 June 2018
• On May 6, after three years in captivity, 82 of the young women were released—the latest and largest group of abductees to be freed—in exchange for five Boko Haram commanders.
  — TIME.com, 27 June 2017
• Gosling broke in at least four of his live sketch appearances, a tone that was set early when the night's first post-monologue sketch was the recurring thing with Kate McKinnon as a raunchy alien abductee.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2017
• Soon after, in 2006, she was chosen to represent former abductees at a series of peace talks between the LRA and the Ugandan government.
  — John Okot, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2020
• Their abductees play an unspoken role in John and Evelyn’s relationship, but Young never puts all his cards on the table.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 May 2017
• Her comic chops with characters like alien abductee Colleen Rafferty frequently drove castmates and guest hosts to lose it live on air.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2022
• The Japanese government, however, has maintained that DNA testing showed that the remains did not in fact belong to the deceased abductees.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2018
• Shimada said Abe would make the case to Trump that releasing the abductees could help North Korea prove they can be trusted to negotiate in good faith after years of deception.
  — Jill Colvin and Matthew Pennington, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• As the captives change hands, their abductors hope to stack up profits, boosting prices and making the abductees' release increasingly costly as time passes.
  — Nima Elbagir, Ghazi Balkiz and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 18 Oct. 2017
• Trump’s engagement has breathed new hope that the fate of the abductees will be finally exposed and possibly all the remaining Japanese returned home in one group, according to Iizuka.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• Some of the innocent abductees included party-goers from the festival.
  — Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Japanese leaders say that account, along with the release of any living abductees, remains a priority.
  — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• And in Japan, the relatives of Japanese abductees are being reminded of this development as the world focuses on high-wire diplomacy.
  — Julian Ryall, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2018
• The gangs often take away the abductees’ passports and let their visas expire, creating immigration complications.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024