shanghaied
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shanghaied
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shan - ghaied -> shanghaied
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- ‘Anyone publishing it should be shanghaied aboard a hell-ship and flogged through the horse latitudes.’
- ‘Otherwise, as Hume remarks in his essay ‘Of the Original Contract’, it is like telling a man who has been shanghaied aboard a ship that he is free to leap into the sea and perish.’
- ‘It was probably the first time any of them had received a kind word from the panda since they had been shanghaied to the crew.’
- ‘The merchant ship's hold had been emptied, and according to the crew some of their shipmates had been shanghaied by the pirates.’
- ‘Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.’
- ‘It wasn't $20 million, but it was still more money than I imagine this woman had seen in her life - a pretty good payout and hardly deterrence to other parents in the neighborhood who felt entitled to shanghai the system.’
- ‘What they don't realize is that the plane is still en route to LA and Walt has merely shanghaied their minds for this astral plane adventure.’
- ‘To recap: last week Jack shanghaied a suspect and used a taser to force him to reveal the location of the primary bad guy.’
- ‘But first of all, it's not like they're going to take a helicopter down there and shanghai these people to the CBS studios.’
- ‘Voluntary - even mandatory - service to school and community is one thing, but to be shanghaied into unpaid labor in order to improve your schoolmasters' quarterly figures?’
- ‘I felt like an idiot, standing there with nothing to say after I'd shanghaied him.’
- ‘At the end of the afternoon the cameras came out, and a waiter was shanghaied to take the group photo.’
- ‘Doubtless the car's previous owner would be irked to discover that his car was gone, but he'd likely be amazed if he knew it was being shanghaied to Mercury.’
- ‘The emotional nature of feelings about morality makes it especially vulnerable to being shanghaied by baser instincts.’
- ‘Joe, and Ned it turns out, are minutes from being shanghaied into white slavery when Nancy finally gets around to saving them.’
- ‘The night before he began his college basketball career, Anthony was shanghaied along with the rest of his Syracuse teammates and was taken to a party at the New York museum on board the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier.’
- ‘Cain had made that very clear when he had shanghaied them for this little errand.’
- ‘Marcella shanghaied him and said something about his brother being in the study and wanting to see him.’
- ‘Adventure shanghaied me to near disaster on the high seas.’
- ‘Which begs the question: How did the film-makers shanghai this many recognizable actors into such a debacle?’
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