Sentence examples for commandeered on from inspiring English sources

JERUSALEM — Israeli naval commandos intercepted and commandeered on Tuesday a cargo vessel en route from Turkey to Egypt that was loaded with weaponry, Israeli officials said.

Riding in two buses they had commandeered on earlier occasions, they stationed themselves on a main road on the outskirts of Iguala, planning to intercept a few buses.

Investigators believe that the men were at the controls of three of the four planes that were commandeered on Sept. 11.

She sang "Getting to Know You" from "The King and I" (which Ms. Holm had commandeered on Broadway with Yul Brynner in 1952 when she briefly replaced an ailing Gertrude Lawrence).

The Malaysia Airlines website was commandeered on Monday by hackers who referenced the Islamic State jihadists and claimed to be from the "Lizard Squad", a group known for previous denial-of-service attacks.

My hat is commandeered and put on a stick where it is peppered with arrows to cries of laughter.

Eventually, the government commandeered space on all privately owned blockade runners and even built and operated some of its own late in the war.

But is there a viable threat from a 2 1/2 -inch pocketknife — if we define threat as a potential terrorist attack that could bring down an airplane, or allow a cockpit to be breached and an airplane commandeered, as on Sept. 11?

I've had all kinds of arrangements, different tables, small reproduction desks in the window, but finally I commandeered, purely on account of its surface area, this very plain Habitat dining table and set my chair looking into the room so I wouldn't be distracted by what might be going on in the street.

Thierry Guetta, the eventual villain of the piece, and "half of Hollywood" descended on Banksy's "Barely Legal" show in Los Angeles in 2006 to see a painted elephant in a commandeered warehouse on Skid Row, along with some art.

Mr. Beamer was a passenger on one of four planes commandeered by terrorists on Sept. 11.