Sentence examples for are commandeered as from inspiring English sources
As everywhere from aircraft hangars to former offices of the Stasi are commandeered as shelters and even ordinary Germans are being asked to take refugees into their own homes, Hamburg, Bremen and other cities have said they will seize vacant commercial property from its owners as an emergency measure.
As a composer, I am weary of being commandeered as evidence of supernatural forces.
The extra-wide pavement outside the new Aldwych catwalk venue has been commandeered as a stage on which street style stars parade for their insatiable Instagram audience.
On one side a baby cot is crammed full of teddies and baby paraphernalia; opposite, a small bed has been commandeered as a base by the midwives.
He recalled how emergency workers had guided him through the rain to an empty tram nearby, which had been commandeered as a makeshift medical bay.
The experimentation of the 1980s, when he tried various genres and styles, yielded some lacklustre results, though 1989's "Rockin' in The Free World" was commandeered as the anthem of the collapse of communism.
The result was an interior rectangle, containing the television room and guest room, surrounded by an exterior rectangle with views in all directions that holds the living and dining room, kitchen, three elaborate bathrooms, the master bedroom, and an office for Mr. Blackston that could one day be commandeered as a nursery.
Mops and brooms were commandeered as weapons.
The estate and village, nestled near the Dorset coast, had been commandeered as a tank firing range ahead of D-Day with its 225 inhabitants told to leave their homes.
