Sentence examples for a commandeered from inspiring English sources

Taken to hospital on a commandeered bus.

As a result, a commandeered computer could more easily be prompted to establish a connection.

Like many rebels, his men had established a base in a commandeered school — in this case, a girls' high school in the center of town.

The videos showed what appeared to be rebels in a commandeered armored vehicle driving near a fence on the base and firing at buildings, as well as fires raging near helicopters on the tarmac.

In April 2010, in the capital, Bishkek, a mob armed with rocks, sticks, assault rifles and even a commandeered armored personal carrier ousted the president, Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev, and forced him to flee to Belarus, where he remains.

Abu Ibrahim, the leader of one of the militias, had established a base at a commandeered border post outside of Azaz, and one day I went to meet him.

Last December, a drunk commandeered a bus and drove it for two hours, eventually making his way to Kennedy Airport.

If you really are stuck, you just have to kick your heels and hope that a load of commandeered red buses don't come to whisk you to a police station via a mass arrest.

Under withering attack, Mr. Murphy climbed atop a burning tank destroyer, commandeered a.50-caliber machine gun and held off an entire German infantry company as it desperately tried to take him out.

One is a teeny, easy to-miss shot of Gertrude and Alice in their Ford van painted with a red cross and commandeered to minister to the French wounded in 1917.

Lieutenant Robert Maynard of HMS Pearl was given command of two commandeered sloops, to approach the town from the sea.