carjacking

noun

car·jack·ing ˈkär-ˌja-kiŋ

: the theft of an automobile from its driver by force or intimidation

In the cities and suburbs, where muggings and carjackings are a daily concern, voters are wondering how many of the nation's 200 million guns are pointed at them.—

Richard Lacayo

… Congress made a show of getting tough on crime by making armed carjackings a federal crime.—

Janet Novack

carjack

ˈkär-ˌjak

transitive verb

carjacked; carjacking; carjacks

Several weeks after the shooting, a woman my age was carjacked there. —

Susan Straight

carjacker

ˈkär-ˌja-kər

noun

plural carjackers

If you're confronted by a carjacker, be cooperative. The big picture: It's your car versus your life. —

Amy Lumet

Examples of carjacking in a Sentence

The police are investigating another carjacking.

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According to the release, on Feb. 7 at around 11:40 a.m., Morton Grove Police responded to the 6900 block of Dempster Street on a call of a carjacking. —

Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025 Hours before the carjacking, Torres-Garcia and Ocasio Justiniano were seen on video surveillance at a Seminole County gas station buying lighter fluid. —

Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025 He was charged with a count of carjacking, five counts of assault with a weapon on a peace officer, a count of leading police on a chase and a count of resisting arrest — all felonies. —

City News Service, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2025 Investigators believed the same man had committed another carjacking, robbery and rape a few days earlier. —

Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for carjacking