How to Use abductee in a Sentence

abductee

noun
  • Now the abductees are required to trick others in turn.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the abductees were tortured and dumped by the wayside, while others were never seen again.
    — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Hear tales directly from abductees with Dr John.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 8 June 2026
  • Our thoughts are now with Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas, and all of our abductees.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
  • But the families of the abductees know that Takaichi is only one part of the puzzle.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • More than 11 years on, at least 91 abductees are still missing or have unknown fates.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Since then, however, there has been little mention of abductees.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 29 Mar. 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
  • The female abductees had all served in a unit of lookouts charged with monitoring threats along the border.
    — Shlomo Mor and Waafa Shurafa The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2025
  • This is the testimony of a survivor, an abductee who was held captive by Hamas.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The abductees who remain in the captivity of Hamas must be returned home.
    — NBC News, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Boko Haram leaders should ensure the safe release of children and all other abductees.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 7 May 2017
  • At one point a bulldozer showed up, all to hack away at the jail’s edifice in the hope of revealing a hidden cache of abductees.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Thousands of abductees have been thrust, untreated, into communities that are not equipped to tend to their wounds.
    — TIME.com, 27 June 2017
  • Families of hostages plan to continue public protests, calling for stronger action to secure the return of all abductees.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Now the actors, who work as game masters and perform as distressed abductees at the venue, will be frightening their guests while under union protection.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Kidnapped on the way home from school Yokota’s daughter Megumi is perhaps one of the most well-known of Japan’s abductees.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • After nearly eight years, the kidnapper brought home another young abductee named Timmy White.
    — James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
  • After nearly eight years, the kidnapper brought home another young abductee named Timmy White.
    — EW.com, 27 May 2024
  • But for the families of Japanese abductees who remain missing, some of whom were just teenagers when they were taken, there has been no closure or relief.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Since women were akin to territory, bringing back abductees from the enemy country symbolized a retrieval of it.
    — JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their families are using the 100-day mark for a new appeal to the government to prioritize bringing home the abductees.
    — Julia Frankel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Streep walked on as the mother of McKinnon’s constant alien abductee Miss Rafferty, with the same spread legs and vulgar manner.
    — Andrew Dalton, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2025

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