Sentence examples for commandeered as from inspiring English sources

We passed the old Vauxhall recreation club, which had been commandeered as a police staging ground.

Within days, our house was commandeered as an officers' mess hall.

As a composer, I am weary of being commandeered as evidence of supernatural forces.

City College closed its building for most of August, exiling the members of the synthetic-biology team from the unoccupied basement classroom they had commandeered as a lab (the school is not a research institution — there are no real laboratories).

While working on scenes in the marshes beyond a marina that BP had commandeered as a cleanup station, the filmmakers were getting word that the approaching oil could shut down the fishing industry for years.

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.

Not only can you choose to sit wherever you feel most comfortable, you can enjoy sharing it with other people and selfishly spread out your books to commandeer as much or as little space as you wish.

We drove past a hospital complex that rebel groups were busy commandeering as a headquarters, then the Old City, the one area that still bustled with relative normality, towards the main frontline between Syrian troops and rebel forces, a suburb in south-west Aleppo named Saif al-Dawla.

The goal remains to commandeer as much information about you as possible (to use for fraud) and/or take control of your device.

At worst, they were commandeered at gunpoint as slave labour to build new roads and bridges.

The program then searches for other machines on the victim's network and tries to commandeer those as well, sending the network addresses and passwords of each infected machine to a designated Internet location.