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Example sentences for "kidnap"

Lexicographically close words:
kidded; kiddie; kiddies; kidding; kiddy; kidnaped; kidnaper; kidnapers; kidnaping; kidnapped
  1. I would kidnap me little gintleman and hold him for wan of thim ransoms!

  2. Several of them had been bruised by the fall into the tunnel, and they wanted to proceed at once and kidnap Bob, so they could get the ransom money.

  3. To-night, positively, we will kidnap Bob.

  4. When Vasco and Noddy, foiled in their attempt to kidnap Bob, retreated through the forest, they went into camp with their crowd in no very pleasant frame of mind.

  5. He had advised Kirk, as a solution of his difficulties, to kidnap the child and take him to Connecticut.

  6. It was still Steve's intention to remove, steal, purloin, and kidnap William Bannister that night, but now that the moment had come for doing it he was nervous.

  7. Climb walls, force bolts, kidnap the girl and marry her in spite of all the world.

  8. So I was sentenced, and it seems the king found out all about their plot as I knew he would, and pardoned the men who were going to kidnap him, while the man who wanted to stop such foolishness is to be hanged in his name.

  9. If you think it safer to kidnap a king than to have a friendly chat with him, amicably arranged beforehand, then all I can say is, that I don't in the least agree with you.

  10. It was a very neat idea of Fenwick's to kidnap a man and keep him a prisoner in his own house.

  11. I have heard of and read of some strange outrages in my time, but to kidnap a man and keep him prisoner in his own house is to exceed all the bounds of audacity.

  12. But it seemed such a safe thing to kidnap him and hide him in his own house, where we could go on with our work without the slightest danger or interruption from those accursed police.

  13. I was merciful in that I permitted him to do so, for he is the very skipper who was suborned by Lionel to kidnap me and carry me into Barbary.

  14. I wrote to him about the extraordinary attempt that this gypsy made to kidnap Dolly, and of how certain we were that Mr. Holmes was back of it.

  15. You mean about the gypsy who mistook you for me and tried to kidnap you?

  16. As if you, who have done everything possible for those girls, would do such an insane thing as hire that gypsy to kidnap them.

  17. And I suppose that this time the law feels that if they are not punished, those gypsies might try to kidnap someone else?

  18. But there are things back of this attempt to kidnap my two girls here that haven't come out at all yet.

  19. Though I suppose if my Uncle Ezra hears about my latest scheme he'll try again to kidnap me, to stop me from carrying it out.

  20. What I had in my mind was doing what they do in the big colleges sometimes: kidnap the president of the crowd so that he can't go to the dinner.

  21. When they had done with this jollification, Tug, who objected to doing things by halves, asked: "Why not kidnap the whole kit and boodle of them?

  22. Prestonby, in an attempt to kidnap young Pelton.

  23. Mean somebody might try to kidnap me, or Claire, to force the Senator to withdraw, or something?

  24. You cannot kidnap us all, and it would not take long to get help.

  25. Dolly wanted to kidnap two of them for bridesmaids.

  26. Dolly, "we might kidnap Mr. Carnegie when he's walking in the park alone, and hold him for ransom.

  27. Now tell me, if you will, what did you mean when you said that this barbarian king, Ithobal, set the savage whom I slew to kidnap you?

  28. Nor we either, Little Mother Coralie; and we shall never know why those men tried to kidnap you.

  29. There is also a colonel who loves her and for that reason loses his life and a certain Mustapha, who tries to kidnap her on the colonel's account and also loses his life for that reason, strangled by a Senegalese.

  30. And he remembered the conversation which he had overheard in the restaurant and the rain of sparks mentioned by the men who were plotting to kidnap Little Mother Coralie.

  31. What about those men who tried to kidnap you?

  32. You'd better not tell her I am going to kidnap her, I think I would rather take her by surprise.

  33. If she refuses to come, I shall make the necessary arrangements, and kidnap her.

  34. And as it was thought he might have tried to kidnap Trouble he was put under arrest.

  35. He says he wants to explain that he didn't try to kidnap the little boy," the constable went on.

  36. Do you call it helping us to come out against Ali Higg and kidnap his wives?

  37. Get in quick, then, and kidnap him," I urged.

  38. And, failing that, there is the 'Petite Jeanne' hanging about waiting to kidnap you a second time.

  39. Appleweight, alias Poteet, was an old wolf, and knew well the ways of the trapper; but the bold attempt to kidnap him was a new feature of the game as heretofore played along the border.

  40. It might have been some small consolation to Griswold had he known that Appleweight's friends and accomplices were as much at a loss to know what had become of the chieftain as the men who had tried so ineffectually to kidnap him.

  41. Is it not as atrocious a crime to kidnap these, as to kidnap a similar number on the coast of Africa?

  42. You mean to kidnap me and bear me off to that ogre's castle, whether or not?

  43. All he can do is to try and kidnap you," explained Frank.

  44. He theorized that it was the reward to Jem and Dan for agreeing to kidnap Ned Foreman.

  45. He figured it out that these men had been sent by Brady to kidnap Ned Foreman.

  46. He also confessed to trying to kidnap the cadets when he heard me tell them that a cab would be waiting for them.

  47. We discovered him, Tom, when that attempt was made to kidnap you by the cab driver.

  48. I thought he might be trying to kidnap Ogden.

  49. Ogden, had invited him to come and kidnap him.

  50. Miss Ann and me had got it all fixed up to kidnap the kid!

  51. Why, this man may have come to kidnap you!

  52. Th'n why did y' sit in at a plot to kidnap this boy?

  53. There have been several attempts made, have there not, to kidnap your son?

  54. Lord Wisbeach is convinced that these scoundrels are trying to steal this, but I cannot help feeling that this is another of those attempts to kidnap my son Ogden.

  55. I had deceived him into believing that I was a professional kidnapper, and he came to me and offered to let me kidnap him if I would go fifty-fifty with him in the ransom!

  56. Personally I think he is here to kidnap my son Ogden.

  57. Do you mean that you're going to kidnap him, Miss Ann?


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kidnap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carry; clasp; claw; clench; clinch; clutch; crimp; embrace; grab; grapple; grasp; grip; gripe; hug; impress; kidnap; loot; nail; nip; pillage; seize; snatch; spirit; throttle