Sentence examples for disappearing them from inspiring English sources

The Chinese authorities, apparently worried about a possible spillover effect of the unrest in the Middle East, began rounding up dissidents, writers and especially human rights lawyers, "disappearing" them for weeks or months at a time.

In this particular instance, Moi, unable to capture the fictional Matigari, had to settle for the next best thing: seizing all copies of the novel that bore his name and — to use a normally intransitive verb that has found its transitive form in the vocabulary of despots — "disappearing" them.

Army officers waited for these women to give birth before disappearing them, often for good, and handed their children over for adoption by regime-friendly families.

It's basically off with their heads, disappear them.

That's what they do to foes, disappear them in the night for questioning that becomes a nameless forever.

If someone pisses me off I either disappear them from my life or force them to like me.

I realised what Australians had done to their indigenous population, to their other: they'd disappeared them.

The king's press secretary called in newspaper editors and told them he could not help if the army decided to "disappear" them for a few hours.