Sentence examples for commandeer his from inspiring English sources

Officer Lopez was shot in the leg after two masked men who had just robbed a bank tried to commandeer his car.

Christopher Olson, 14, was carrying a rifle and several knives when he and two friends were arrested on a quiet street in Oaklyn, N.J., moments after a driver told the police that the teenagers, who were carrying an assortment of firearms and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, had tried to commandeer his car.

Cookie went on ahead and had a specialist flown in to see Andre, and she tries to commandeer his medical care.

He played high school football and baseball until skiing commandeered his schedule.

After commandeering his Mazda outside a shopping complex in Nairobi, the carjackers became annoyed.

As a child he had wanted to be a sculptor, and commandeered his mother's kitchen as a studio.

On Friday, he was traveling without a security escort when a group of armed gunmen commandeered his vehicle at a busy traffic intersection, the police said.

In time, Eli McCullough accumulates wealth and power through cattle, then oil, even though this requires commandeering his neighbor's property.

(Dargis) 'Captain Phillips' (PG-13, 2 14) In his latest, the director Paul Greengrass revisits the true story of Richard Phillips Tom Hankss), an American taken hostage in 2009 by Somalis who commandeered his cargo ship in the Indian Ocean.

In an interview published in The Boston Globe, a 26-year-old Chinese man describes his harrowing 90 minutes with the Tsarnaev brothers after they commandeered his car on the night they were trying to flee the police.

Maurice was taken pity on by Richard Salt, who plays off 12 as steadily as you would expect a tax inspector to do, while Lenny commandeered his son, Peter, to help him clinch a higher place inthe league.