Abduction

//əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩//

"Abduction" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Tom was involved in Mary's abduction.

Tom, an experienced reporter, was investigating the recent abduction of three children in the city.

No abduction had been reported in that town since 1965.

Layla witnessed her mother's abduction.

Sami learned all about Layla's abduction.

Sami went to trial for Layla's abduction.

Yanni was smuggled into North Korea after his abduction.

Ziri was suspected of abduction.

It is not clear what the kidnapper's motive was for carrying out the abduction.

My uncle is colorblind, and my grandmother didn't notice until he called his friends green guys, and even then she thought the young boy was spinning an alien abduction story about being taken away by little green men.

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Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.

The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.

the abduction of a child

Saturday’s actions – the abduction of [Venezuelan] President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to face federal drug-trafficking charges in the U.S., and the deadly bombings of military installations and some civilian buildings across the country – had “Trump Corollary” written all over them.

But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.

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