Sentence examples for feeling hijacked from inspiring English sources

8.36pm BST Mark Beaumont "It was an eclectic mix," says James Doon't Mention Me Dad McCartneyy of his set on the Replay stage today, "not so much the party people, slightly older crowd, Beatles fans…" We can relate to James' sense of feeling hijacked by the past.

It's a fact of life that harsh and hurtful feelings can hijack us because it brings up painful memories or future worries.

I remember leaving my body many times during the exam, feeling my brain being hijacked many times.

"I am feeling like my train was hijacked," said Ms. Alexander, a stage manager for "Freed," an off-Broadway show.

All too often though, our focus and attention get hijacked, leaving us feeling frazzled, forgetful, and unable to concentrate.

You make a decision to watch the matches, rather than feeling that your life has been hijacked by football.

I was deeply moved by the film but, like every novelist, couldn't help feeling that my memories had been hijacked by someone else's.

"There was a feeling that our research had been hijacked by Wade to promote his ideological agenda," Nielsen says.

Another indicator that you're reacting to past--rather than current--relationships is if your feelings seem to "hijack you even when evidence is building that your perceptions are wrong," Shragai said.

The turn of events isn't entirely unjustified, but it did leave me -- as well as a couple of the other readers that I've spoken with -- feeling as if the book had been hijacked.

I can find that feeling again, even now, but the damn thing got hijacked so quickly.