How to Use abduct in a Sentence

abduct

verb
  • One day, the pimp saw her on the street and tried to abduct her.
    — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Has she been abducted by aliens?
    — Max Gao, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Israel thinks Hamas may have tried to abduct a soldier.
    — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Who would abduct him, torture him for days and toss him onto a rubbish tip?
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • Graver wants to abduct the kingpin’s daughter to trigger a gang war.
    — Fortune, 1 July 2018
  • Anton here tried to abduct a 12-year-old and then fled from the police.
    — NBC News, 4 Sep. 2022
  • No one knew whether they had been killed or abducted by the Taliban.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2019
  • Amber was 9 years old when she was abducted.
    — Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a scene after Lewis abducts her, where Benson cuts her hair.
    — Rebecca Phelps, Marie Claire, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Guthrie has been missing since the start of the month and is believed to have been abducted.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Strand was playing in her yard when Horner abducted, abused and killed her.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • On the road, her husband was shot and her daughter was abducted by armed youths.
    — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Not being able to abduct grade-schoolers is an affront to his clan’s heritage.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • Japan believes more people might have been abducted and that some could still be alive.
    — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • She was abducted over a month ago, and to this day, the police have very few solid leads.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Mar. 2026
  • No firm sense of exactly when she was abducted.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • His body was later abducted to Gaza.
    — Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Gun owners aren’t going to set their weapons aside when masked and unidentified strangers break in and try to abduct them.
    — Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That man had lived close to where Kathie, Kandice and Sheri were abducted.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • The riders wore turquoise and pink – the colors that Sara wore when she was abducted.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • 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 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
  • Police believe she was abducted in the middle of the night.
    — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Two years later, she herself was murdered—abducted from her home, shot up, and left in the woods.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The evidence showed that Boots was forcibly abducted, court records show.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Alianna, 14, was on her way to the charter school, when she was abducted.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • King abducted Lee, leaving her children alone in the house.
    — ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The mob was reportedly roused by rumors that the men were planning to abduct children.
    — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • As many as nine Haitian journalists have also been abducted since the start of the year.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • So the Christians being abducted have to cough out huge sums as ransoms.
    — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026

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