Sentence examples for commandeered my from inspiring English sources

I had commandeered my husband, Victor, and some friends to come along.

In another round, he had actually commandeered my hand, making the cutoff signal to the dealer on my pitiful behalf.

A hallway hung with wallpaper samples — the first thing a visitor sees — commandeered my attention with the instantaneous authority of great art.

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.

She was the mastermind behind my first Big Chop: she commandeered my head one summer afternoon at home, when she was six and I was three, and hacked at my hair with theatrical flair.

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.

"May I just throw in the Duke and Duchess of Windsor?" he asked, commandeering my Perrier to down two pills of the size used to dope thoroughbreds.

There are two dozen films and TV shows currently working New York's neighborhoods, and it sometimes seems they're taking turns commandeering my block.

She then spent 45 minutes with it, stopping only after I realized she was trying to commandeer my review unit.

Sure enough my CIA instincts were correct, and I burst in the room, commandeering my wailing child and chastising grandma for ignoring my will.

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