Example sentences for: commandeered

How can you use “commandeered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The ships were commandeered to carry troops or become floating hospitals, and the waters around the islands were infested with German submarines.

  • This paper exercise involved a scenario in which a group of terrorists commandeered a Learjet on the ground in Atlanta, loaded it with explosives, and flew it toward a target in Washington, D.C.

  • The general says his plane had only seven minutes of fuel left when the military commandeered the control tower and cleared the commercial airliner to land.

  • One of these is the yellow clapboard Longfellow House, which was commandeered by Washington as his headquarters during the siege of Boston (see page 16).

  • The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.


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