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spiriting
adjective as in animating
Example Sentences
Its fighters killed some 1,200 people in Israel and took more than 200 others hostages, spiriting them back into the territory.
Lifshitz described Hamas militants spiriting her into a tunnel system that she said “looked like a spider web.”
“He was going to retire a very wealthy man, but because he wanted more, what he’s going to be known for from now on is spiriting himself away from Japan by hiding in a box.”
It has carried out spectacular missions such as hunting down Arab enemies through Europe, capturing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and, with agents disguised as scuba diving instructors, spiriting Ethiopian Jews out to Israel.
Federal authorities have charged a father and son with spiriting their daughter and sister out of the country and holding her captive in Yemen, where they tried to force her into a marriage.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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