kidnapping
IPA: kˈɪdnæpɪŋ
noun
- (crime) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.
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Examples of "kidnapping" in Sentences
- The mystery of the kidnapping is played out well and without words.
- Then the police are sure to tell daddy that the kidnapping is for real.
- Richard Barnes says a thought of a kidnapping is a bunch of foolishness.
- Another abandoned his presidency as rebels closed in, flown away in an American jet in what he described as a kidnapping.
- A trial witness has denied defence allegations that what he described as his kidnapping and night-long bashing was actually his own robbery attempt gone wrong.
- According to sources, Smart will testify that Mitchell was motivated primarily by sex and not religion in kidnapping her, and that his behavior was inconsistent with that of a 'prophet,' which he proclaimed himself to be.
- In 2005, police accused Dr. Renato Brun Del Re, 53, of kidnapping and forcible confinement after he was allegedly involved in kidnapping his daughter in an attempt to deprogram her from what he said at the time was a cult.
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