On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Hijacking. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as robbery and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Hijacking in a sentence
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Hijacking meaning
present participle and gerund of hijack
Synonyms of Hijacking
Using Hijacking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of hijack
- Useful related words include: highjacking, robbery.
- In the example corpus, hijacking often appears in combinations such as: the hijacking, hijacking of, of hijacking.
Context around Hijacking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hijacking
- In this selection, "hijacking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anti, name, truck, detection, laws and reports stand out and add context to how "hijacking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1976 entebbe hijacking and hostage and 1999 kandahar hijacking osama bin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hijacking" sits close to words such as averse, avian and backseat, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hijacking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I’m not complaining about the hijacking of Christmas. (9 words)
Four stations are in the top 30 for truck hijacking reports nationwide. (12 words)
Detectives are appealing for information following the hijacking on Friday night, June 16. (13 words)
He is the first person to be convicted under stringent anti-hijacking laws introduced in 2016, which allow for only two punishments for hijacking or threats to hijack: life or a death sentence. (33 words)
The reggae singer Lucky Dube was dropping off his teenage son at a relative’s home when gunmen shot him three times at close range during an attempted hijacking. (29 words)
Use Adthena’s Ad Hijacking Detection solution: Monitor and report thousands of instances of affiliate ad hijacks across hundreds of affiliate networks with Adthena’s Ad Hijacking Detection. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
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He is the first person to be convicted under stringent anti-hijacking laws introduced in 2016, which allow for only two punishments for hijacking or threats to hijack: life or a death sentence.
Backleading sounds similar to "hijacking", and indeed it is often used in place of "hijacking".
Flight attendants and pilots now receive extensive anti-hijacking and self-defense training designed to thwart a hijacking or bombing.
A Cadillac dealer has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a strange cybersquatting dispute.
A driver was attacked and his vehicle later torched after a hijacking in north Belfast this morning (Sunday).
Continuous Risk Evaluation enforces security policies both at login and during an active user session, reducing the potential for unauthorized access or session hijacking.
Detectives are appealing for information following the hijacking on Friday night, June 16.
Four stations are in the top 30 for truck hijacking reports nationwide.
I’m not complaining about the hijacking of Christmas.
Meanwhile the Toyota Fortuner was also reportedly stolen this month (January 2023) in Mothotlung in the North-West Province during a hijacking incident.
Perhaps more findings of reverse domain name hijacking in dead-on-arrival cases will dissuade companies from filing them.
Suspicion has also fallen on Somali pirates for that hijacking, although the EU force said the hijackers and their demands were unknown.
The closest parallel would be the 1976 Entebbe hijacking and hostage-taking by two Germans and two Palestinians on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris.
The Houthis, which control large swaths of Yemen, have carried out over a 100 hijacking assaults on ships travelling through the Red Sea.
The passengers weren’t even aware it was a hijacking until they got off the plane.
The reggae singer Lucky Dube was dropping off his teenage son at a relative’s home when gunmen shot him three times at close range during an attempted hijacking.
The suspects were arrested during a sting operation on Saturday after law enforcement officials received information about a truck hijacking on the N12.
Today, with the proliferation of social media and internet-based businesses, however, brand hijacking is a to small businesses than ever before.
Vishal Bhardwaj talks about his doomed projects -- from the 1999 Kandahar hijacking, Osama Bin Laden movie to the debut film that never could happen.
Common combinations with hijacking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the hijacking 26×
- hijacking of 17×
- of hijacking 16×
- hijacking the 13×
- name hijacking 10×
- hijacking and 8×
- hijacking or 6×
- and hijacking 6×
- for hijacking 4×
- hijacking in 4×