abduct - use in sentences

Used with why or when

  • when: Mulder's own sister was abducted when they were both children.

Object

  • girl: Here, also, the abducted girl now lives.
  • boy: Abducted boys and girls have been forced to fight and serve as porters, while many girls have also been pressed into sexual slavery.
  • child: He abducted the children from their home in England, taking them to Saudi Arabia in contempt of court.
  • woman: A large number of girls and young women abducted by rebels were raped and became pregnant.
  • parent: A child was quickly returned when the abducting parent saw posters of himself and his child displayed at the Paris Eurostar terminal.

Subject

  • alien: Max doesn't believe he was abducted by aliens, I believe he was.
  • man: I thought only Americans were abducted by little green men.
  • group: At least 10 journalists have been abducted by armed groups in Iraq in 2004, CPJ reports.

Modifying Another Word

  • forcibly: Why Children Become Soldiers Many children are forcibly abducted to fight in wars.
  • allegedly: May Kennedy from Culzean, was allegedly abducted from the castle by Sir John Cathcart.
  • then: Young women and children were then abducted as the preferred " booty " for the raiders.
  • also: They shoot to death four people that stop there and also abduct a woman.
  • apparently: On the 11th, two fishermen, Charles Hickson & calvin Parker were apparently abducted at Pascagoula, MS.

Preposition: by

  • alien: Max doesn't believe he was abducted by aliens, I believe he was.
  • man: I thought only Americans were abducted by little green men.
  • group: At least 10 journalists have been abducted by armed groups in Iraq in 2004, CPJ reports.
  • terrorist: Friday, October 11, 2002 @ 6:55 AM No coolhand I wasn't abducted by terrorists!

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