Sentence examples for was commandeered for from inspiring English sources

A concrete-walled storage room was commandeered for a production studio.

Because of his previous acting experience Forsythe was commandeered for the propaganda musical Winged Victory, which successfully toured the country.

After he began the C.I.A. job in September 2011, the couple settled into a house in the Virginia suburbs and began the closest thing to a normal life together that they had had in years, even if the basement he had designated for a home gym was commandeered for secure C.I.A. communications gear.

The hills were commandeered For gravemounds.

Cars are commandeered for trips of any distance.

The two-wheeled truck and the soldiers had been commandeered for a war effort.

Those women were commandeered for so many group pictures that people started calling them the Juppettes.

Every spare inch of tarmac has been commandeered for police coaches, riot vans and operations trucks.

Gyms and schoolyards have been commandeered for classroom space, and some schools have been built without gymnasiums, the report says.

"This would be the first time that the middle of Long Island Sound would be commandeered for an industrialized purpose," she said.

At McCrady's and Husk, the two restaurants in Charleston, South Carolina, where Brock is the executive chef, every spare shelf and walk-in has been commandeered for pork.