Example sentences for: hijacked

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

  • Controllers track airliners such as the four aircraft hijacked on 9/11 primarily by watching the data from a signal emitted by each aircraft's transponder equipment.

  • At 8:28, Boston Center called the Command Center in Herndon to advise that it believed American 11 had been hijacked and was heading toward New York Center's airspace.

  • An inside WP story reports that the tense situation between Cuba and the U.S. over custody of that six-year-old boy was compounded when Cuba demanded that the U.S. return the crew of a fishing boat it says was hijacked out of Cuba Monday, and is now in Coast Guard custody.

  • About a decade ago a European airplane was hijacked by Middle Eastern terrorists, who tried to identify Jews among the passengers by the names in their passports, on the theory that those ending in - stein or - berg were clearly Jewish.

  • The inaccurate accounts created the impression that the Langley scramble was a logical response to an actual hijacked aircraft.


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