Sentence examples for it was commandeered to from inspiring English sources

And with the growing crowds — 250,000 so far this season, twice the rate of last year — come other signs that an island is not necessarily the perfect retreat and can also fail at being not-the-city: at one recent event the ferry back to terra firma was delayed nearly an hour as it was commandeered to rush a festivalgoer, who had reportedly overdosed on drugs, to a Brooklyn hospital.

When a private car was commandeered to transport a machine gun, one of the civilians in it overheard an order "to drive everyone out and burn the colony".

His popularity is universal, but his death was commandeered to mark a milestone in African-American history.

It later transpired that this was the band, who had left their wagon when it had been commandeered to carry the injured Huskisson.

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

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

"It is assumed the vessel is now being commandeered to one of the Puntland pirate lairs," Ecoterra said in a statement.

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

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

Cars, buses and trucks had been commandeered to create 50-odd roadblocks in Jalisco and three neighbouring states; many were set alight.

The finding, reported in the 15 June Current Biology, highlights how the genetic hard-wiring for one trait can be commandeered to create another over evolutionary time.