commandeer

Example Sentences

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He regularly turned up at the U.K.’s New York consulate, would commandeer the consulate’s car and visit friends, including Epstein, the book says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

The students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to take them to an annual protest in Mexico City.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

Because the city has failed, he said, the receiver would have authority “vested by the court to commandeer what it needs within the city in order to solve this problem.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

You took a computer at a place where you commandeer visually several screens at once, and you had also the ability to turn the TV you were watching pretty readily.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024

‘Wheel Don’t know commandeer, but it sounds dreadful cruel to me.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes