commandeer

How To Use commandeer In A Sentence

• Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans. The Great Experiment
• The pickup driver complied with the police order, but quickly fled from the truck, pulled out a handgun and commandeered a passing 2003 Toyota Corolla with two occupants.
• Sports centres and army barracks have been commandeered as shelters. Times, Sunday Times
• Others have not be able to return to their land and houses that have been commandeered by the military as High Security Zones.
• The soldiers commandeered vehicles in the capital and occupied the television station.
• The ministry should take the lead to commandeer the general public to clean up public places like schools, bars, markets and taverns which form the core of a high-risk reference point before the rains.
• There were, for example, many local officials around the country who commandeered transport to bring voters to polling stations.
• The three were arrested on Saturday after the newspaper reported on Friday that Mugabe last week "commandeered" an Air Zimbabwe ANC Daily News Briefing
• Dafoe plays a computer mastermind who seeks revenge on his former employer by commandeering a luxury cruise ship.
• The only to commandeer a man can be violent memories, is the live better.