shanghai

Example Sentences

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“We should engage in careful dialogue to decide the best action. Let us not be shanghaied into a rash move for being labeled.”

From Los Angeles Times

“He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage.”

From New York Times

Premise Kelly Clarkson’s daughter falls asleep and somehow gets shanghaied into some sort of adventure with Santa Claus.

From The Guardian

It has been shanghaied by the super wealthy.

From New York Times

In abdicating an inclusive, sustainable philosophy, the Republican Party has reaped the candidate it has sewn — a grotesque, who has shanghaied their party in service of nothing other than ego gratification.

From Time