Sentence examples for commandeered what from inspiring English sources

Giles Deacon, along with Jonathan Saunders (of whom more later), commandeered what little buzz there was around the week's shows.

Hnin Se, wearing jeans and a head scarf, had somehow commandeered what seemed to be a rusted-out city bus.

The security breach that allowed a temporary employee to steal and sell inside information on pending merger deals, which led last week to criminal charges against 19 people, was just one of the unpleasant topics Mr. Paulson had to discuss Friday morning when two stockholders commandeered what might have been a short, sweet gathering.

Gilmour stated that The Endless River is Pink Floyd's last album, saying: "I think we have successfully commandeered the best of what there is... It's a shame, but this is the end".

It is not hard to see why, shortly after winning the Russian Revolution, Lenin and his cronies decided to commandeer apartments in what was even then Moscow's grandest grand hotel.

Adam Adoum Abdullah, a former rebel fighter who joined the Sudanese Army as part of a peace deal with one rebel group in 2006, commandeered an army truck to help collect what little food, blankets and bits of shelter remained in the town for those sleeping out in the cold next to the army camp.

The protesters want to suspend what they say is a democracy commandeered by the self-exiled billionaire Thaksin, whom they accuse of nepotism and corruption, and eradicate the political influence of his family by altering electoral arrangements.

On Monday night, Donald Trump commandeered a primetime TV slot to tell America what he planned to do about the long-running war in Afghanistan.

What does not have value in my eyes is using those rules to make judgement calls on other people's use of the language, or to point out "mistakes" other people may have made, which is what the prescriptivist cause is often commandeered to do.

This is "out" music -- i.e., on the free-improvisation side -- commandeered by a guy who has very exact ideas about what he's trying to accomplish.

The boxes could be instrumental in getting information about what happened on the American Airlines jetliner that was commandeered by hijackers after it left nearby Dulles International Airport en route to Los Angeles Tuesday.