abscond

in a sentence

At another party, he absconded with an entire keg of beer.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Our train absconder.†  (source) Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 2016

That a big, black, tropical cat managed to survive for more than two months in a Swiss winter without being seen by anyone, let alone attacking anyone, speaks plainly to the fact that escaped zoo animals are not dangerous absconding criminals but simply wild creatures seeking to fit in.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

In 1995, the leader of a commercial expedition absconded with tens of thousands of dollars of his clients' money before the trip even got off the ground.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

That I am absconding with something, attempting some kind of treachery on my sister.†  (source) Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947

'There'd be no more reason for Kemp to abscond with your wife's loaner than there would be for him to abscond with her Pinto,' Masen said.†  (source) Stephen King, Cujo, 1981

On your own planet disappearances run to hundreds of thousands and not all are absconders or wife-deserters; see any police department's files.†  (source) Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road, 1963

On their last night in Acapulco, a thief had stolen the Gibson guitar-absconded with it from a waterfront cafe" where he, Otto, Dick, and the Cowboy had been bidding one another a highly alcoholic goodbye.†  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

ABSCONDING BANK CLERK DISAPPEARS WITH FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS' WORTH OF NEGOTIABLE SECURITIES, I read.†  (source) Agatha Christie, Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot, 1935

How the faeries were able to enter Alicante and abscond with the prisoners from the house given to the representative of the Fair Folk; how Sebastian was able to conceal troops from us at the Citadel; why he spared Mark Blackthorn—not out of fear of angering the faeries but out of respect for their alliance.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire, 2014

Why, asked the Aurora, had the President of the United States "absconded" from the seat of government at a time when the public mind was "exceedingly agitated"?†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

And, indeed, the merchants tell many a true tale of shiftlessness and cheating; of cotton picked at night, mules disappearing, and tenants absconding.†  (source) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

Critics felt, in the words of John Baugh, that the Oakland School Board "was trying to abscond with the limited bilingual education funding available for students for whom English is not native."†  (source) Robert MacNeil and William Crane, Do You Speak American?, 2005