shanghai

Example Sentences

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A schemer and her henchmen shanghai two book salesmen for a diamond safari in Africa.

From Los Angeles Times

“We should engage in careful dialogue to decide the best action. Let us not be shanghaied into a rash move for being labeled.”

From Los Angeles Times

A pirate shanghais a teenager who missed the plane to join his girlfriend on an island.

From Los Angeles Times

Me and Katherine still wear our finery from the night we were shanghaied, and these things I’m wearing are for looking pretty, not strolling through a frontier town.

From Literature

“He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage.”

From New York Times