Sentence examples for commandeered me from inspiring English sources

A friend mysteriously commandeered me and presented me to a lanky older man with a wry expression on his face.

"Béla came through camp with a patrol of six or seven boys and commandeered me to teach a class on camp craft.

At a women's conference in an upscale Denver hotel, a large contingency (including me) commandeered all but one of the men's rooms on the meeting room floor.

Such is the power of a good book that last winter, 10 years later, I commandeered my friend Susan to join me for a week in Corfu as a kind of Durrell pilgrimage.

As I packed up the discarded flotsam of adolescence — a brittle bouquet from a prom and some high school yearbooks — I couldn't help but think wistfully about what a wonderful office Zoe's bedroom would have made for me if I'd commandeered the space right after she left for college.

I had commandeered my friend Susan to come to Mexico with me in January to visit Sian Ka'an (pronounced see-AHN KHAN, Maya for "where the sky is born") and also another, more accessible Yucatán reserve, Celestún, famous for its flamingos.

The taxi driver who picked me up from the airport was the first one to tell me about the 43 male students who commandeered buses to protest a conference led by the wife of the mayor of Iguala in the State of Guerrero.

Pat hooked me up with Claudia shortly after he commandeered the re-release of Lennear's lost gem of a platter - Phew! My interview with Claudia can also be read on Huffington Post November 2013 (The Wonderfully Checkered Past of a Soul Rock Goddess http://huff.to/LrNFlz ).

Twenty buses were said to have been commandeered by demonstrators and forced to proceed to a ferry on the Me kong River 20 miles from here, where they were stopped.

Unable to formally rent a bicycle out, I aggressively commandeered one from my housemate to see how it worked out for me.

"It drives me absolutely stark raving fucking bonkers that Chekhov seems to have been commandeered by middle-class Englishness," says the Scot.