Sentence examples for were commanded to from inspiring English sources

Owners were commanded to take care of their weapons.

Others were commanded to check in postage-stamp-sized purses.

In March, even small boys were commanded to wear turbans to school.

In Nizhny Novgorod, top officials were commanded to take up volleyball and swimming.

The Israelites, per Deuteronomy 20 16-18, were commanded to "utterly destroy" the cities of various tribes including the Canaanites.

At the graduation ceremony in Kobanî, the conscripts were commanded to stand against "our enemies in Turkey".

Our eyes are commanded to open.

Religious people are commanded to drop worldly concerns.

Begelman is commanded to give up the Rolls.

Interested parties are commanded to stop being so common at once.

But he sympathized with officers who had been commanded to shoot their fellow-citizens.