Sentence examples for has commandeered for from inspiring English sources

We skip excitedly back up the stairs to the main restaurant, which Joe has commandeered for a key scene in his first Hollywood movie, a true-life story called The Soloist.

Colonel Hubner was resting in the cool afternoon gloom of the living room of a house that he had commandeered for his headquarters in southern Samarra.

The Club has gone one better this time, having commandeered for its in-town gig the abandoned many-storied building that used to be home to Central St Martins Art School before it moved to King's Cross.

C.J. Chivers and I had embedded ourselves, so to speak, with the Lions of Tawhid and were living with the fighters at their base, which at the time was the burned, looted country house of someone who they said was close to the regime but that they had commandeered for themselves.

The cast: three accomplished Bay Area chefs (Mike and Jenny Emanuel — whose kitchen and backyard we've commandeered for the weekend — and Melissa Fernandez), one gifted baker (Chad Robertson), one jack of all culinary trades (Anthony Tassinello) and two amateurs (me and my 17-year-old son, Isaac).

The refuge was an abandoned railroad warehouse which Mother Teresa had commandeered for the poor.

Last week the Danish anti-terror squad dropped out of helicopters onto the roof of an ex-hangout of Lenin that squatters had commandeered for many years.

From 1940-1944, this unassuming woman worked as a custodian of small Paris museum that the Nazis had commandeered for their looting operation, all the while spying on their activities.

He has commandeered subway trains, and taken buses for joyrides.

For it, the library has commandeered the larger auditorium at La Guardia High School, across the street from Lincoln Center.

Gallery Libby Sellers has commandeered an old gas station in South Kensington for an exhibition by the Dutch designer Dick van Hoff.