Example sentences for: abduction

How can you use “abduction” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The technique for groin/femoral/inguinal temperature readings involved gentle slight abduction of the patient's leg, location of the femoral pulse, placement of the sheathed thermometer on and lateral to the pulse site, and slight adducting of the leg to create a seal [ 23 34 ] .

  • Corporate downsizing is neither as terrible nor as rare as stranger abduction, but the two phenomena share some characteristics.

  • Went to the Kennedy Center Thursday night to see the Los Angeles Opera's production of The Abduction from the Seraglio , which is nearing the end of a one-month run.

  • The NYT lead spends a good deal of ink high up addressing the question of whether or not Israel helped carry out Ocalan's abduction, but waits until the last sentence of the piece--at the end of the 34th paragraph--to state the Clinton administration's denial of involvement.

  • The Washington Post leads with details of a 1993 abduction of a Libyan dissident from Cairo.


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