How to Use kidnap in a Sentence

kidnap

verb
  • The men also would have admitted to trying to kidnap and forcibly detain Arbery, resulting in his death.
    Bill Rankin, ajc, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The jury convicted the 52-year-old Delphi man of two counts of murder and two counts of murder while kidnapping the girls.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
  • About 250 others were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza, including about a dozen Americans.
    Juliann Ventura, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Jessi’s personal desires and vendetta lead her to kidnap Emilia, to enable her escape with her lover Gustavo.
    Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The government has asked a judge to keep 258 statements out of the Whitmer kidnap trial, statements the defense claims will help prove that their clients were entrapped.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Authorities have said the men were planning to kidnap the Democratic governor from a vacation home and blow up a bridge to delay law enforcement, but they were arrested first.
    Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Some are just folks off the street who get kidnapped or press-ganged into service in the navy.
    Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • He was born in Roman Britain and kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at 16.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Others called for the return of the rest of the Israeli hostages kidnapped that day, some of whom are women.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In the early 1760s, a young child was kidnapped from her home in West Africa and sent to the Americas.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • If she had been kidnapped, then why was there no ransom?
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In 1993, his brother Udi was kidnapped and killed by members of Hamas.
    Laura Klairmont, CNN, 5 July 2024
  • The two women were kidnapped by Hamas from their homes in Kibbutz Nir Oz, the statement said.
    Dov Lieber, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The plot to kidnap and kill a governor may seem like an anomaly.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Elliot kidnaps her and keeps her in the attic of his second home.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Some were alleged to have kidnapped patients and held them against their will.
    Hannah Bassett, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2024
  • After a massive hunt, she was found on the side of a road, bruised, chained and claiming she had been kidnapped.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 1 July 2024
  • April 20-May 20 Someone may kidnap you to go on a wild ride today!
    Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The thieves temporarily kidnapped the driver along with the truck.
    Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • An American nurse and her child were kidnapped in Haiti last week.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 31 July 2023
  • There was Ocean View Cafe, the Ukrainian restaurant where a woman says that he must have been kidnapped.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The woman stalked, kidnapped, killed while walking home alone.
    Tessa Fontaine, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
  • The two set their sights on Whitmer and hatched a plan to kidnap her, with Fox agreeing to recruit members.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Then, a 12-year-old Petaluma girl, Polly Klaas, was kidnapped and later found dead.
    Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • More news to know now An American nurse and her daughter were kidnapped in Haiti.
    USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • Choate was jailed, but a mob of hundreds of white people kidnapped him from his cell, tied him to the back of a car, dragged him across town, and lynched him in front of the courthouse.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 21 July 2023
  • The men were accused of assisting in a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
    Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Three men involved in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were sentenced to prison terms of seven, 10, and 12 years.
    Byemma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Quill loves Kevin Bacon so much that the Guardians apparently want to kidnap him and bring him to Peter to cheer him up.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The student learned the next day that his grandfather had been killed, and his grandmother and uncle were kidnapped.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023

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