Sentence examples for like a kidnapping from inspiring English sources
"It was like a kidnapping.
A woman may have disappeared behind a disguise, but it hasn't felt like a kidnapping.
It's kind of like a kidnapping, and I've finally got my kid back".
To make it look like a kidnapping, he says, Mrs. Ramsey tied the girl's wrists and taped over her mouth.
Like a kidnapping victim negotiating his own ransom, he was willing to accept any demand in order to be allowed to return to Haiti.
"So my husband grabbed me, and said, 'As soon as I give a signal, run as fast as you can.' " Antonio said, "It was practically like a kidnapping".
"Africans in the two Congos embraced them like a kidnapped offspring suddenly released from captivity".
"I got a package at my office, which I returned to the post office because it was addressed to Bernard Madoff, with no return address and a label that looked like a kidnap note," he said.
"Africans in the two Congos embraced them like a kidnapped offspring suddenly released from captivity". I can't get enough of that sort of thing: as someone who's no musicologist, to read it felt like a flash of lightning had illuminated the fog of history.
If you know the Jesus Lizard, you know there's something in this guy's brain that isn't quite firing in a traditional way—someone smart once described his vocals as sounding like "a kidnap victim trying to howl through the duct tape over his mouth".
Edward T. Norris, the commissioner, says he sometimes has trouble understanding police reports, like one about a kidnapping that he read while working in New York City: "Subject did abducted woman without no illegal right".
