Sentence examples for were commandeered to from inspiring English sources

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.

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

It was only after a series of airliners were commandeered to Cuba, and other 1960s hijackings such as the diversion of a TWA flight to Damascus, Syria, after takeoff from Rome, that the life of the American flier began to change.

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.

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

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

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".

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

The administration argued that the alien tort law had been "commandeered" to allow cases that had "no connection whatsoever with the United States".