Sentence examples for are commandeered to from inspiring English sources

When Davis's loved ones fall ill, he snaps into action: former Raiders like Willie Brown are dispatched to deliver checks to cover medical expenses, airplanes are commandeered to whisk the sick to distant hospitals — anything to keep friends and former players alive.

Less powerful rockets used by weather forecasters were commandeered to take the men supplies.

One practice was interrupted when the players were commandeered to help lay the drainage pipes.

That stopped the show because someone had to be commandeered to carve it.

The concept is so repellent to national sentiment that an English word has been commandeered to describe it: dumping.

His popularity is universal, but his death was commandeered to mark a milestone in African-American history.

Cars, buses and trucks had been commandeered to create 50-odd roadblocks in Jalisco and three neighbouring states; many were set alight.

When a private car was commandeered to transport a machine gun, one of the civilians in it overheard an order "to drive everyone out and burn the colony".

"It is assumed the vessel is now being commandeered to one of the Puntland pirate lairs," Ecoterra said in a statement.

Two steamers were commandeered to take up pursuit and quickly armed with a couple of small cannons and soldiers from a nearby fort.

In New York, the Empire State Building was lit with the Windows 95 logo while a Polish submarine was commandeered to take journalists into "a world without Windows".