shanghaiing
Example Sentences
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With the Napoleonic wars raging across Europe, the British navy had taken to shanghaiing Americans in foreign ports and at sea to fill out its wartime fleets.
From Time • Jun. 18, 2012
I asked Alexander Rekunkov, the deputy procurator-general, "Why didn't you send a summons instead of shanghaiing me?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The army's recent practice of shanghaiing young conscripts off the streets is not likely to generate goodwill -- or good soldiers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No more shanghaiing hair pants for me, no more!" thickly replied Portsmouth.
From Bar-20 Days by Mulford, Clarence Edward
And shanghaiing, to use a modern term, was not unknown.
From Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers by Brydon, G. MacLaren (George MacLaren)
