shanghai
Example Sentences
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Once at the embassy she could be shanghaied back to Hong Kong or China.
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
I consider trying to catch part of the show, but am afraid that if I cross the lot I’ll get shanghaied into some other task.
From Literature
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
