Example sentences for: kidnap

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

  • 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."

  • In Colombia, El Tiempo said Garzón was killed because of his attempts to bring an end to the political fighting in Colombia, especially his negotiations with leftist groups, and also because of his efforts to secure the release of many kidnap victims.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We meet the young hit men who guarded the kidnap victims, and odors of fatalism, superstition, and barbarism waft upward from the page, in an unmistakable indication that we are in the presence of the grimmest poverty.


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