kidnapped

Example Sentences

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Emmanuel’s disappearance drew national attention after Haro and her husband told authorities their son had been kidnapped after someone attacked her in a Yucaipa parking lot on Aug. 14.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Starting with the epigraph “Only a child can kill a monster,” the film follows a little boy as he attempts to find the man who kidnapped his schoolmate, a small girl.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Amanda is one of more than a dozen Jewish people from a range of UK communities who have spoken to Panorama - including an NHS midwife, a student and a musician who was kidnapped.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Others—including York, Clark’s enslaved manservant, and Sacagawea, a kidnapped Shoshone teenager pregnant with the child of the expedition’s interpreter, Charbonneau—did not have a say in the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"Sir, we are two innocent friars; we haven't kidnapped anyone," one of them protested.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios