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    Use "commandeer" in a sentence

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    commandeer


    commandeered


    commandeering


    1. Messengers could commandeer


    2. Clearly, he’d been unable to commandeer a bireme


    3. Only the knowledge to commandeer this vessel


    4. World War II really showed how the United States could commandeer its national resources for all out war


    5. authority to commandeer any and all means of transport to quickly move his army of the


    6. We will commandeer all the trucks and han-


    7. Commandeer every available truck


    8. If the animals get between the crew and their ship, we can slip in and commandeer the ships


    9. ‘Can we commandeer a helicopter and crew for a couple of days? Then, if you started your contractions we could have you back in a couple of hours


    10. By overriding the security system, and returning false information of normality, we have been able to commandeer them, without any fatalities

    11. government attempted to commandeer the site and seal it


    12. "How were you able to commandeer one of these boxes?" he asked


    13. “The Galaef told me to commandeer the G 15’s


    14. His first thought had been to commandeer the container


    15. I shuddered as I envisioned the soldiers, who would surely commandeer the


    16. Will Techine have or be able to produce eternal exponential growth? After it, They, can recreate itself and commandeer an immortal energy source, it will be a deity on a god quest, with unimaginable questions, dreams and pet peeves


    17. “We’ll commandeer the bloody star cruiser! This ship! I can pilot this thing!”


    18. "Let's go and commandeer Zac's car before he notices


    19. 'I was about to commandeer it for fuel


    20. were going to commandeer my van

    21. so he was forced to commandeer the truck


    22. First, the state of his supply lines had forced him to commandeer every available scrap of transport to feed his own starving, freezing troops


    23. These hungry men could devour the whole shoat at one meal and, if they knew of the live hogs, they could commandeer them for the army


    24. He would crush Mercer’s hand and snap off a salute for the old man and then commandeer the wheel, and Mercer would fall asleep in the bed of the pickup, watching those dirty Georgia clouds barely move while peaceable man-talk drifted back from the cab


    25. “Stupid Bravery,” says Horatio, “for he means to lead the Prisoners out of Newgate and to the London Docks or e’en as far as Southampton or the Isle of Wight, where he plans to commandeer a Ship to take ’em to the New World


    1. Tuggots was unconscious in the ruin he had commandeered for himself, a place that had once been a foreman's office back when this area was functional


    2. Then they had gone to the Bonny Bridge riding club in Millbrook road, a mere half a mile from the American Embassy, and commandeered a few horses


    3. He surveyed a farmhouse-style building looming over the grounds in which Roidon's commandeered craft was parked


    4. Although a bit worst for wear we commandeered it as most of it was fairly weatherproof it was warm and comfortable with straw stored in it so we took it as our sleeping place


    5. “I said we commandeered her engine because ours was broken


    6. Colonel Harrington had commandeered the building primarily for the use of his Regimental Headquarters Company, but had also provided some accommodation for the nearby Third Battalion


    7. She commandeered everything – the will, the estate, the possessions and of course the financial portfolio


    8. Ah…but wait, you say – if there was no original will, how could she have commandeered the estate and gone wild? That is a good question, but did I mention how cunning she was? The best of all is, the signature on this “copy” of the will is so dodgy and wobbly, it looked like a child had forged it


    9. Armed volunteers from all the cities and towns around the lake swarmed into Tenochtitlan while the Ordu commandeered every boat available and soon had several pontoon bridges across the small canal


    10. It turned out that the PA HoJo’s where I had stopped was the nearest rest stop on PTP to where the fourth plane went down (Shanksville), after it was commandeered back from the hijackers by the brave crew and passengers thereby avoiding another strike in D

    11. They commandeered anything and everything that they said was necessary to search for things that might have been washed down the depression in the desert east of here


    12. water, commandeered the boat, and began the chase after


    13. He felt it when the power of the Serminakis who were sworn to justice began to be gradually added to his effort, as alliance spell-casters who had the ability and concentration to spare commandeered it with pull spells


    14. surprise was when that captain commandeered our barges


    15. They commandeered anything and everything that they said


    16. Similar self sacrifice was exhibited by military and civilian personnel at the Pentagon, where casualties numbered in the hundreds, and in the Pennsylvania country side where brave airline passengers attacked the terrorists who commandeered their aircraft, and forced the plane into the ground, sparing the nation"s capital


    17. commandeered one of the unoccupied Mythos'


    18. We need to know if these people—presumably working for Raidan—are the Harbinger's crew or if they're outsiders who commandeered the ship


    19. Tress had made good time along the cart track with her commandeered pony, it was late afternoon and she realised that the horse had been invaluable


    20. of our actions are commandeered by our psyche, and by the irremovable law

    21. The air conditioning in the patrol car which he had commandeered for the afternoon was defective, which explained why the young patrolmen had been so willing to give the car up for the day


    22. Jan had his office, which he shared with Chantal (who pretty much commandeered half of it


    23. ’ An irritated Inspector Kareltin paced the small room he had commandeered above the main entrance


    24. "In summary, the plan was this: Colonel Orlov would transport the Romanov treasure by train to the Pacific port of Vladivostok, load it onto a commissioned or commandeered ship and sail for San Francisco where the valuable cargo would be placed in vaults at various banks to await the arrival of the Tsar and his family


    25. Once they arrived at Greg’s cargo ship, they inventoried the ship’s stores and developed solutions to the more pressing maintenance issues on the commandeered pirate vessels


    26. The Federation Space Force Interstellar Logistics Command commandeered the depot and set up a garrisoned frontier trading post


    27. She and her crew slept in sleeping bags commandeered from the Marine depot until they could assemble the parts for their bunks which were still in their shipping containers in the munitions holds


    28. I’ve commandeered it for the day to impress our country cousins


    29. At the temporary headquarters in the church hall set up by Detective Inspector Morton, now commandeered by Detective Superintendent Demery, DC Gary Hayes and DC Alan Potter were sitting at their desks


    30. Detective Superintendent Demery had commandeered the small, cold Abermôr police station

    31. Red and Brian joined them, and they commandeered a large table in anticipation of Rebecca’s arrival with the two boys they had seen riding to her aid


    32. Against the wishes of some station owners, who had been in their own small way part of the conspiracy, radio station employees commandeered the facility and linked with the broadcasting station in the Midwest


    33. Gabby and Hannah commandeered a vacant simulator


    34. How can a house stand if its members are divided? In the same way how can my soul stand divvied up between my demons? It is as if a pirate worm has taken over me, climbed over the bulwarks of my soul and commandeered me


    35. The man preceding him and carrying a patibulum was actually a common Jew commandeered by the Romans to carry Yeshua’s load


    36. Over twenty trucks had also arrived from other parts of Warsaw, all commandeered by the Polish Home Army


    37. The offending house was commandeered by the state as were all other houses then alienated from all ‘capitalists and landlords’ in the country


    38. ‘Patel, tell anyone who asks that we have commandeered your car after the emergency in camp


    39. ����������� Surrounded by his bodyguards, the Chief Global Administrator stepped out of his craft by its rear access ramp, setting foot on the concrete of the landing pad as a local government limousine commandeered in advance by a call from Zurich approached slowly


    40. Picking speed slowly, the MV Heraklion’s bow started swinging towards the incoming armada of Hezbollah boats and detaching itself from the yacht that had been commandeered by ISIS

    41. ‘suit’ he had commandeered


    42. “After beating me in a fair contest, he commandeered my ship in order to conclude 335


    43. “But here you are, on a ship you commandeered,


    44. “There was a war game and I commandeered the SaLing in order to more quickly


    45. Garcia recognized several of the trophies on the wall, a plaque from one of the Romulan ship’s he had commandeered during their adventure


    46. The commandeered ships were manned and on their way before the Enterprise was in scanning distance, thanks to Kitara’s efficiency


    47. The Path Finder and the Pa Nun followed the commandeered ships, synchronizing their warp speeds so that they would arrive shortly after they did


    48. Garcia was on the Bridge when the commandeered ships dove into the star


    49. “We have commandeered the three Guardian ships and three Warrior ships are on their way from the old camp and will be here shortly


    50. “You won’t have heard of him, but he was the local Government Minister in Bulawayo who commandeered the Bartlett’s farm






















    1. See from whom they have been commandeering their livelihood


    2. In the corridor outside, he turned right, but not before commandeering a servant with his request


    3. The idea that someone would seriously consider commandeering and moving an entire orbiting shipyard was so outrageous and so preposterous that the news raced through the community


    4. “What about commandeering the port?” she whispered, meeting him eye to eye


    5. “And it’s because of the truce we had with you that he was prevented from commandeering the technology to stop her


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    Synonyms for "commandeer"

    commandeer highjack hijack pirate draft conscript enlist abduct coerce force confiscate seize take possession of requisition misappropriate expropriate arrogate

    "commandeer" definitions

    take arbitrarily or by force