Sentence examples for was commandeered to from inspiring English sources

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

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".

Pursuing his doctorate at Cornell, he was commandeered to leave school to help with the war effort by doing research on jet fuel, which ultimately contributed to American air superiority.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Two steamers were commandeered to take up pursuit and quickly armed with a couple of small cannons and soldiers from a nearby fort.