Sentence examples for commandeered to keep from inspiring English sources

When Captain DeMure arrived, Mr. Mohammad told him the government's logistics system was such a failure that he owed $3,400 to shopkeepers for goods he had commandeered to keep his police station fed and supplied.

I had dark suspicions that David Cameron was going to staple chisels to the agonised and palsied limbs of all those deemed fit to work by Atos and force them to carve a granite block into a well-appointed French chateau in reverent memory of all those commandeered to keep Old Etonian officers floreating 40 miles behind the frontline.

Less powerful rockets used by weather forecasters were commandeered to take the men supplies.

That stopped the show because someone had to be commandeered to carve it.

One practice was interrupted when the players were commandeered to help lay the drainage pipes.

The concept is so repellent to national sentiment that an English word has been commandeered to describe it: dumping.

Other buildings around the city had to be commandeered to absorb the overflow from the castle itself.

The military has also been authorized to commandeer private tanker trucks to keep gasoline supplies moving.

In an effort to keep up with him, the service commandeered some cigarette boats seized from Florida drug smugglers.

Their job was to keep passengers at bay as the planes were commandeered and flown to their intended targets.

"I have no idea how this came to be but every time I try to keep myself from coming, I think of Jacques Cousteau commandeering a small ship, with whales swimming in the waves behind the boat.