Sentence examples for commandeered it for from inspiring English sources

Finn had commandeered it for the purpose of catching dead, or soon to be dead, birds.

Wilson's husband had brought it home from a trip to Washington, and she had commandeered it for her morning tea, watching the Presidents' faces fade, year by year, until she couldn't tell them apart, and loving it all the more for that, she said, because morning tea "didn't taste the same from any other mug".

She simply commandeered it for online.

In fact, my good lady wife commandeered it for a while to use as he little summer purse.

Mandy Chan, of Las Vegas, says she has pretty much given up using her laptop for online shopping — her 2-year-old commandeers it for "Barney" viewings — and instead shops on her phone.

In the pilot he cancels a bowling date with his best friend, Wade Nate Torrencee), to go to a club where his latest object of affection is hanging out; in the second episode Wade rents a limousine in a last-ditch attempt to win back his wife, but Stuart commandeers it for a club-hopping misadventure.

The Club has gone one better this time, having commandeered for its in-town gig the abandoned many-storied building that used to be home to Central St Martins Art School before it moved to King's Cross.

During World War II, despite Kahoolawe's status as a sacred place to Hawaiians, the Navy commandeered the island for live-fire training for its Pearl Harbor fleet.

Instead, he raised the cost of parking, commandeered roadways for high-speed buses, expanded ferry service and made the city more bike-friendly.

But they found themselves again hosting a military force on their property, with vital buildings commandeered for convalescent troops and their railroad depot for government transportation.

After he began the C.I.A. job in September 2011, the couple settled into a house in the Virginia suburbs and began the closest thing to a normal life together that they had had in years, even if the basement he had designated for a home gym was commandeered for secure C.I.A. communications gear.