abscond

How To Use abscond In A Sentence

• You know the food is really good when a bunch of foodies are devising clever ways to abscond with a whoopie pie after an epic 20-dish meal. Foodies Feast, Family-Style
• MORE than 4,000 prisoners have absconded over the last ten years. The Sun
• She absconded from boarding school with her boyfriend.
• The other seven had in the meantime absconded.
• It would be unkind to ask which of the "virtues" presided over Suzon's original acquaintance with her future husband, or whether the same or another undertook the charge of that wonderful six weeks 'abscondence of hers with him in this very uncle's house. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• The appellant absconded shortly before the conclusion of his trial, and was re-arrested only in March 2000.
• The statute defines "a notour bankrupt" to be any debtor who, being under diligence by horning or caption, at the instance of his creditors, shall be either imprisoned, or retire to the abbey or any other privileged place, or flee or abscond for his personal security, or defend his person by force, and who shall afterwards be found, by sentence of the lords of session, to be insolvent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• The latest scandal engulfing the department has been over prisoners absconding from non-secure open prisons. Times, Sunday Times
• the banker absconded with embezzled funds
• He absconded before he could be deported and the authorities gave him leave to remain because it was adjudged his life would be in danger if he returned to his home country.