Example sentences for: kidnap

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

  • There isn't a mob of data villains waiting on the other side of the wire to steal your money, read your e-mail, and kidnap your dog.

  • The kidnap victim whom we get to know best is a prize-winning journalist named Maruja Pachón, about whom García Márquez says, in the English translation, "In the bloom of her early thirties, she had married in the Catholic Church at the age of nineteen, and had given her husband five children."

  • They kidnap him from his wedding ceremony on pain of death.

  • I'm thinking in particular of Frances McDormand's unflappable pregnant cop in Fargo ; John Turturro's Barton Fink, the mediocre leftist playwright who tries to go Hollywood; and in the new film, Jeff Bridges' incarnation of Jeff Lebowski, a k a the Dude, an amiable stoner who is drawn into a Big Sleep -inspired kidnap scheme.

  • Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms.


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