How to Use abscond in a Sentence

abscond

verb

• The suspect absconded to Canada.
• Several prisoners absconded from the jail.
• The United Kingdom, the eternal outsider, is now set to abscond from the union for good.
  — Josef Joffe, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2016
• Across the street, the entrance to streetwear store Bait is roped off like a club to keep people from absconding with $1,000 sneakers.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• Take a walk in Capote’s footsteps here, and then abscond to a plush guest room to watch the Black and White Ball episode in the very hotel it was created for.
  — Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Feb. 2024
• The Batman seems to abscond from this, building up a Gotham that’s already knee deep in classic staples.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2022
• No, Spicer hadn't jumped ship, though he could be forgiven from absconding from the press grilling that awaited.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 May 2017
• We were absconded from such concerns, from feeding fires and mouths.
  — J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• At Wednesday’s hearing, Bryan W. Brown, an attorney for the teen, did not say where his client was or how the teen absconded.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• In 2015, the landscapers planted Bounce Impatiens, but once again the thieves came by and absconded them.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• Husqvarna’s device sounds an alarm if someone tries to abscond with the mower and has a GPS device built in.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 July 2022
• Myunghee absconded again in 2014, making it to South Korea the following year.
  — Fox News, 25 Nov. 2019
• Belly and Conrad have absconded to the beach house in winter, alone together for the first time in their favorite place.
  — Lucy Feldman, Time, 5 July 2023
• Even fraudsters holding billions in crypto won’t blush at the chance to abscond with a little more fiat.
  — Ben McKenzie, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
• The Qarmatians were said to have killed scores of pilgrims and absconded with the black stone of the Kaaba—which Muslims believed was sent down from heaven.
  — Ken Chitwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
• As usual it’ll be held at Traverse City, where the Wings have absconded to for 21 seasons to prepare for the grind of the regular season.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2019
• Clients have taken to social media ever since to claim the death and loss of the password were staged in an attempt to abscond with their digital coin.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
• Around the same time, a hacker exploited a software flaw in a DeFi project called Wormhole to abscond with $320 million.
  — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• But even the Huntington was hit five years ago when a thief absconded with a bonsai tree under a blanket in a baby stroller.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
• That ended poorly – Kylo absconded with some of Luke’s other pupils and killed the rest, destroying Luke’s hope in the future of the Jedi.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 4 May 2023
• Squirrels snarf hard taco shells, and abscond with Nutella jars; subway rats chow down on pizza, while seagulls have ripped fries and even a KFC wrap straight out of human mouths.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2023
• In one common scheme, called a rug pull, investors deposit money into a smart contract only for its creators to abscond with the funds.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• Everyone knows full well that Michael has left their kids with the nanny to abscond to whatever King Street haunt tickles his fancy.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
• An opening scene introduces the two puffing cigarettes across state lines, absconding from a school trip to put up bets at the tracks (and not even on horses, but on dogs).
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• Ursa ran away then, and later Ray and his girlfriend, Cherry, do the same, absconding to Los Angeles.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• DeFi projects are frequently run by anonymous teams that sometimes abscond with investors’ funds in scams known as rug pulls.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 17 July 2021
• In some cases, the ICOs amounted to blatant scams where the organizers promptly absconded with the money.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 May 2018
• Instinctively absconding with the girl and heading out on the lam, the new fugitive and her willing charge forge deep bonds beyond a legal framework.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• Each woman took her cheery placard and absconded to a large back table, where one by one their orders were delivered.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• At no point does that pomp and circumstance require a Hollywood A-lister to jump from the roof of a building, abscond with the flag, find a motorcycle and ride out of the stadium with it.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024