Sentence examples for was requisitioned as from inspiring English sources
In 1915 the Olympic was requisitioned as a troop ship.
During World War I, the property was requisitioned as a convalescent hospital for soldiers.
However, with the start of World War I in 1914, the Britannic was requisitioned as a hospital ship in 1915.
During the Second World War, part of the parkland was requisitioned as an airfield, and in 1940 some of the garden buildings were damaged by a cluster of incendiary devices.
The women take on more responsibilities, the house is requisitioned as a convalesence unit, and Robert spends this series adjusting to a new world order.
Computers, blenders, vases, houseplants, your daughter's soccer trophies, your TV: everything you are accustomed to thinking of as home décor will be requisitioned as a weapon during the Cascadia earthquake.
If musical-psychological warfare had a seemingly wholesome beginning, it has acquired a more sinister aspect in recent decades, as music has been requisitioned as a means of harassment.
In July, the long list of 55 is finalised and the clubs are informed that their star pupils will be requisitioned as of September and – miracle of miracles – the clubs are obliged to hand them over.
Harland's in Belfast and Brown's in Clydebank also supplied the two big liners that were requisitioned as troopships, the Canberra and the QE2, while Barclay Curle in Glasgow built the Uganda that became the hospital ship.
Blake's makeover of the ferry Snowdrop will remain in place until late 2016, and the ship will carry an exhibition on the Mersey's maritime history in the first world war, when two ferries were requisitioned as troop carriers for a raid on Zeebrugge.
Nor does she kick and scream when her pretty bedroom is requisitioned as a nursery for the baby and she has to move into her stepbrother Aaron's ugly, ecologically correct room (it has a cruelty-free mahogany dresser), which smells so strongly of his dog, Mooky, that Kitty Minky urinates all over the bed in protest.
