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Commandeered meaning
simple past and past participle of commandeer
Example sentences (20)
Several gunmen were seen paragliding across the border, and there were news reports that an Israeli military base had been commandeered by Hamas.
The camp of makeshift shelters formed after war broke out and the army commandeered the community's earlier homes at Hill 60 for strategic purposes.
The library has been commandeered as another frat house.
They commandeered his cart and took off one of the wheels, blocking the road.
Across the nation, localities and school systems with no history of intentional racial discrimination were commandeered by federal judges who made themselves tinhorn dictators to control every aspect of the classrooms.
Having hosted fine-art exhibitions, automobile fairs and equestrian shows, during the first world war the Grand Palais was commandeered as a military hospital.
He was 83. Gulen was a one-time ally of Erdogan but they fell out spectacularly, and Erdogan held him responsible for the 2016 attempted coup in which rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, tanks and helicopters.
Yet suddenly his teenage son is being commandeered to try to get him out of a tight spot.
But cuck was ultimately commandeered by the general public and used as an insult against the far right, removing its offensiveness.
In early June, Black Lives Matter protesters forced the Seattle Police Department to abandon the city's East Precinct building and commandeered the facility, establishing the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone', or CHAZ, in the surrounding blocks.
Trump, instead, commandeered the debate, trying to trip up Biden by interrupting and insulting him.
And they also commandeered the unit's Penal Code book.
As thousands opt for the latter, the lanes of the causeway quickly become commandeered by the horde, which somehow avoids getting struck by cars zooming past.
At one point, Harry commandeered and then briefly shadow-boxed a 2.5 metre-high balloon sculpture for seven-year-old Fraser Philpotts.
He'd commandeered one of the world-famous digger firm's beasts bearing the slogan 'Get Done' and dramatically bulldozed through a polystyrene wall emblazoned with the word GRIDLOCK.
In the history of problematic appropriation in America, we could start with the land and crops commandeered from Native peoples along with the mass expropriation of the labor of the enslaved.
It seemed like the naval ship that was slowly being commandeered from out underneath them.
Shirley said the band’s name was inspired by a steam locomotive called the General, which was commandeered in Georgia by a Union raiding party during the Civil War.
State Trooper Kevin Flick commandeered a boat from a mother and son, Sandra and Ted Steinacker.
The judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been effectively captured and commandeered by the APC-led government to do its bidding.