Sentence examples for is commandeered from inspiring English sources

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is commandeered

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To seize for military use.

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Regardless of how someone's identity is commandeered, the result can be endless hours trying to clear one's name.

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

Their map is commandeered by Major Archie Gates George Clooneyy) and they set off behind enemy lines to swipe the gleaming yellow bars.

The film is commandeered by Douglas and Brolin, whose dramatic presence muscles aside anyone young, woundable, female, or — God preserve us — green, and who survive even the foul designs foisted on them by the costume department.

But if you pop for the temporary fabric top to use when the removable panel has been left home (there's no place onboard to stash the 31-pound targa panel), the package area is commandeered to store that.

And the entire scenario, envisaged by the set designer Michael Howells, who created so many unforgettable sets for John Galliano, proved that in every way London designers are bringing imagination to the runway — even when the catwalk is commandeered by the accessories.

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It's still there, though usually only when a George Clooney is commandeering the red carpet.

The state is commandeering every resource to establish control over the country.

Critical to President Trump's war on immigrants is commandeering local police to feed his deportation machine.

Or do they start locking stuff down (even more) when they realize that Amazon is commandeering their own platform?

Today Gayle is commandeering CARE's $700 million budget and 8,200-strong 8,200-strongk on the problem of global poverty.

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