Sentence examples similar to we were commandeered from inspiring English sources

"If we explode the barracks, it means we will liberate Benghazi". Bulldozers were commandeered by protesters to ram the walls but the barracks finally fell only when a suicide bomber drove a car into the front gate.

The hills were commandeered For gravemounds.

Phone lines from a vacant pizzeria were commandeered.

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

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.

At worst, they were commandeered at gunpoint as slave labour to build new roads and bridges.

Nearby buildings were commandeered by the army and mobile phone coverage was shut down in parts the capital.

Their job was to keep passengers at bay as the planes were commandeered and flown to their intended targets.

Mops and brooms were commandeered as weapons.

None of the car's control systems were commandeered, however.