How to Use abscond in a Sentence

abscond

verb
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  • The suspect absconded to Canada.
  • Several prisoners absconded from the jail.
  • Across the street, the entrance to streetwear store Bait is roped off like a club to keep people from absconding with $1,000 sneakers.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • The Batman seems to abscond from this, building up a Gotham that’s already knee deep in classic staples.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2022
  • No, Spicer hadn't jumped ship, though he could be forgiven from absconding from the press grilling that awaited.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • We were absconded from such concerns, from feeding fires and mouths.
    — J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • At Wednesday’s hearing, Bryan W. Brown, an attorney for the teen, did not say where his client was or how the teen absconded.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In 2015, the landscapers planted Bounce Impatiens, but once again the thieves came by and absconded them.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • Husqvarna’s device sounds an alarm if someone tries to abscond with the mower and has a GPS device built in.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 July 2022
  • Myunghee absconded again in 2014, making it to South Korea the following year.
    — Fox News, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Belly and Conrad have absconded to the beach house in winter, alone together for the first time in their favorite place.
    — Lucy Feldman, Time, 5 July 2023
  • Even fraudsters holding billions in crypto won’t blush at the chance to abscond with a little more fiat.
    — Ben McKenzie, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The Qarmatians were said to have killed scores of pilgrims and absconded with the black stone of the Kaaba—which Muslims believed was sent down from heaven.
    — Ken Chitwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
  • As usual it’ll be held at Traverse City, where the Wings have absconded to for 21 seasons to prepare for the grind of the regular season.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2019
  • Clients have taken to social media ever since to claim the death and loss of the password were staged in an attempt to abscond with their digital coin.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Around the same time, a hacker exploited a software flaw in a DeFi project called Wormhole to abscond with $320 million.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • But even the Huntington was hit five years ago when a thief absconded with a bonsai tree under a blanket in a baby stroller.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That ended poorly – Kylo absconded with some of Luke’s other pupils and killed the rest, destroying Luke’s hope in the future of the Jedi.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 4 May 2023
  • Squirrels snarf hard taco shells, and abscond with Nutella jars; subway rats chow down on pizza, while seagulls have ripped fries and even a KFC wrap straight out of human mouths.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In one common scheme, called a rug pull, investors deposit money into a smart contract only for its creators to abscond with the funds.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Everyone knows full well that Michael has left their kids with the nanny to abscond to whatever King Street haunt tickles his fancy.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Ursa ran away then, and later Ray and his girlfriend, Cherry, do the same, absconding to Los Angeles.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • DeFi projects are frequently run by anonymous teams that sometimes abscond with investors’ funds in scams known as rug pulls.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 17 July 2021
  • In some cases, the ICOs amounted to blatant scams where the organizers promptly absconded with the money.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 May 2018
  • Instinctively absconding with the girl and heading out on the lam, the new fugitive and her willing charge forge deep bonds beyond a legal framework.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Each woman took her cheery placard and absconded to a large back table, where one by one their orders were delivered.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • South Africa is the world’s sixth-largest avocado exporter, and farmers like Mr. Alcock are entangled in a cat-and-mouse game with fruit thieves who abscond with thousands of pounds at a time.
    — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • The pilot is purposefully opaque about what Sky absconded with.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 18 June 2019
  • Arquette starred as Peggy Newman, a drug addict who turns a new leaf by absconding to the Yucca Valley desert to become a private eye.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 July 2023
  • The lawsuit against California, the mayor of Oakland warning the immigrants of the raids, 800 absconded.
    — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018

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