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How to use the word kidnap in a Sentence?

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Death and destruction are central to their criminal operation, to dominate the federal supply chain, the Chapitos kill, kidnap and torture anyone who gets in the way.

Anne Milgram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, it's incredibly disturbing that the President of the United States, 10 days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial and execute me, 10 days after that was uncovered, The President is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism.

Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They discussed possible targets, taking a sitting governor, specifically governors of Michigan and Virginia, over shut down orders, the understanding at the time was to potentially kidnap a sitting governor and remove them from office.

Richard Trask

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The individuals in( state) custody are suspected to have attempted to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war, and engaged in planning and training for an operation to attack the capitol building of Michigan and to kidnap government officials, including the governor of Michigan.

Dana Nessel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You know, the fact that after a plot to kidnap and to kill me, this is what they come out with. They start attacking me, opposed to what good, decent people would do is to check in and say,' Are you OK ?' Which is what Joe Biden did.

Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You know, the fact that after a plot to kidnap and to kill me, this is what they come out with. They start attacking me, as opposed to what good, decent people would do is to check in and say,' Are you OK ?' -- which is what( Democratic presidential nominee) Joe Biden did.

Governor Whitmer of Michigan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum, we urge you to immediately investigate this atrocious and unlawful conduct.

The ACLU

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If the regime dares, of course, to kidnap us, it will be the last mistake they make.

Juan Guaido

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Jayme was the target, the suspect had specific intentions to kidnap Jayme and went to great lengths to prepare to take her.

Barron County

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm, and this goes for all people regardless of politics. Some have chosen to push hate and vandalism against the restaurant that I was asked to leave from. A Hollywood actor publicly encouraged people to kidnap my children.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Kidnap-for-ransom continues to plague the region, which is a trend that has unfortunately continued from 2016.

Maisie Pigeon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They are not a government, they kidnap girls from schools.

John Agim

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I was too scared to go home and the police came to the hospital to talk to me. Many people were helping me find a safe place to live, and I knew it was Jesus, and soon, the police called to tell me that they had uncovered a plot in which my abusive husband had planned to kidnap the children back to Iran. After that, we moved to Sweden, and the policeman told me that I have an angel on my shoulder.

Courtesy Annahita Parsan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the several months before they kidnapped Patty Hearst, two of their members were arrested and eventually convicted of murdering an Oakland school official, that set the table in the sense that these people were very capable of committing violence. Patty Hearst kidnap letter. ( Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel) And so Patty Hearst comes along and it was a very opportunistic way for them to put themselves on the front page of newspapers every day … They were certainly good at playing the media to their benefit back then.

Tom Jennings

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I am tired of hearing that they are going to kidnap my mother, and I don’t know whether it is a policeman or a bad guy, I don’t know who they are, all I know is if I don’t pay, those people disappear.

Miguel Cabrera

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I didn't organize, kidnap or kill Mr Camarena...I was in the wrong place.

Caro Quintero

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

On Jan 30, 2015, there were plans by 13 people linked to Daesh (Islamic State) to kidnap the country's leaders including the prime minister, the home minister and the defense minister, there was also a plan to carry out an attack in Putrajaya. To this end, the group had prepared and tested explosives.

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't think the school has any place adjudicating things like rape, they don't do it with murder or kidnap, so why are they doing it with something just as hard to evaluate?

John Doe

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.

Mariane Pearl

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ms. Huskins' whereabouts are unknown, and we are treating this matter as a kidnap for ransom, we're worried about Ms. Huskins' welfare. We don't know where she's at. And that's why we're coming to the public asking for their help.

Vallejo Police Lt. Kenny Park

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Taliban did not kidnap our Hazara brothers in the past, and we know they also fight this new group, Daish.

Hasan Reza Yousufi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Banking secrecy, in my view in times of Facebook and data all around the world, is going to be more important than before and not less important, if you know how much money somebody has, you also know how much you would get if you kidnap him.

Ivan Adamovich

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement

Jarod Kintz

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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