Sentence examples for commandeered from a from inspiring English sources

She captured it in a plastic cup commandeered from a bar cart and liberated it in a planter on Vanderbilt Avenue.

David Gohlich, the company commander, said the house had been used as an insurgent base for the last five or six months after it was commandeered from a wealthy Shiite family, which was forced out.

They published new photographs of the launcher, perched on its flatbed trailer, being towed around eastern Ukraine by a white Volvo truck that had been commandeered from a heavy-equipment rental company in Donetsk.

From our lawn chairs (successfully commandeered from a neighbor two rooftops down), the cityscape is choppy we can see as far as the lonely peak of 1 WTC in one direction and as far as a Chinese take-out by Eastern Parkway in the other but Salomon outlines the airport panorama beyond: La Guardia, JFK, EWR.

Police said he had turned himself in to a Safeway employee after driving there in a vehicle he had commandeered from one of his victims.

A few hundred metres away, a group of young, aggressive and visibly drunk local men were jumping up and down on an armoured personnel carrier (APC) which they had commandeered from Ukrainian forces, trying intermittently to take it apart or start it.

ISIS militants were closing in on them with tanks commandeered from Assad's forces.

The police had retreated from some neighborhoods, and protesters were seen armed with police batons, helmets and rifles commandeered from riot squads.

And it's no secret that Osanna's new squad of 24 experts was hastily commandeered from other digs across Italy in response to the outrage.

To the north, witnesses saw the insurgents on the move in military vehicles commandeered from captured army bases, ferrying anti-aircraft guns and other heavy weapons between the rebel-held cities.

The presence of a tank tipped at least one intelligence analyst to conclude that the target was not Isis, but Coe said the analyst's assessment was neither widely distributed nor fully accurate, as earlier airstrikes against Isis had hit tanks commandeered from the Syrian regime.