Seized arbitrarily

Usage examples of commandeered.

Muttering curses against Lord Bludd and Tio Holtzman, Venport commandeered the first available VenKee ship and raced directly to Poritrin.

At that the wineglasses went cascading out the tall glass doors which stood open around three sides of the commandeered villa's dining room.

The commandeered room was quiet, only the light hissing of the lantern breaking the silence.

His face glistened with sweat, more than the mild warmth of the commandeered mansion's underfloor heating system could account for.

They'd commandeered a dozen buildings along the streets leading off from the plaza, and all the city's remaining hansom-cabs for ambulances.

We took your advice and commandeered a big pack of remounts from the East Residence reserve before we left.

Transport would be commandeered to replace them, while the guns ate a month's reserve of ammunition.

The Crook-knees learned how the power system worked, commandeered all the power units in one single lightning grab, then moved their population base into the mountains, far out of reach of the Cridi.

The first three big men they encountered on their way to the grid were commandeered to assist.

Then he commandeered one of the speed shuttles, although it was needed for an imminent Threadfall, and went to inspect his new acquisition.

General Funkhauser was always in the lead with a small bicycle which he had commandeered and to which the precious knapsack was tied.

Eastland of Mississippi had cornered most of the easy plums controlled by the Senate, while Mendel Rivers of South Carolina commandeered so many posts and establishments that an admiral had once growled, “Mendel, if we give you one m7ore base, Charleston will sink.

Some soldiers, too, had been commandeered from those recalcitrant Varren lords who had fled home after Sabella's defeat and hoped to avoid the king's notice.

Their servants commandeered pallets or slept on the floor around them, and, in the warmth of the longhouse with a hearth burning throughout the cold late autumn's night, all were comfortable.

Then, eyes widening, he stared at the apparition that, silent but all the more frightening because of that silence, now commandeered one of the riderless horses and swung up onto it.