Sentence examples for commandeered for a from inspiring English sources
The two-wheeled truck and the soldiers had been commandeered for a war effort.
A concrete-walled storage room was commandeered for a production studio.
We skip excitedly back up the stairs to the main restaurant, which Joe has commandeered for a key scene in his first Hollywood movie, a true-life story called The Soloist.
The festival labored under another handicap too: the student orchestra had been commandeered for a performance of Verdi's "Don Carlo," led by James Levine, on July 28, and except for a single concert on Wednesday, its players were off limits to the normally rehearsal-intensive festival.
"This would be the first time that the middle of Long Island Sound would be commandeered for an industrialized purpose," she said.
The big seasonal lake at Paralimni, for example, near where I was patrolling with the CABS people, is a noisy dust bowl commandeered for an illegal shooting range and an illegal motocross course, carpeted with shotgun shells, and extensively littered with construction debris, discarded large appliances, and household trash.
When they came out, according to a local ABC news affiliate, their ride was gone, apparently commandeered for an urgent mission: to get to a strip club in neighboring Detroit called the Booby Trap, post-haste.
Colonel Hubner was resting in the cool afternoon gloom of the living room of a house that he had commandeered for his headquarters in southern Samarra.
Exploiting the emotional power of fetal imagery, laws require women to undergo ultrasound, a practice welcomed in wanted pregnancies but commandeered for use against women with unwanted pregnancies.
A group of volunteer medics were resting at a former Soviet children's camp, now commandeered for their living quarters.
A radio announcer was detained and his microphone commandeered for radio broadcasts, beginning at 5 45 am.
