What is "commandeer"

Usage examples of "commandeer".

To say that a mental shock was the cause of what I inferred - that last straw which sent me racing out of the lonely Akeley farmhouse and through the wild domed hills of Vermont in a commandeered motor at night - is to ignore the plainest facts of my final experience.

As I sat down in a student desk the police had commandeered more classrooms I nodded amiably at her attendant constable, a Geordie whose hair was the colour of the flashing part of a Belisha beacon.

Germans, but it did fool Major - de Coverley, who packed his musette bag, commandeered an airplane and, under the impression that Florence too had been captured by the Allies, had himself flown to that city to rent two apartments for the officers and the enlisted men in the squadron to use on rest leaves.

Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major - de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.

Justifiably smug since his success at commandeering a room that overlooked the harbor, Lord Commander Diegan glanced up in startlement.

He had Bellingham and Faye go with him in another commandeered car and drove them to within a block of the Kingwood precinct station.

Cheb claimed to know how to cover evidence of their maneuver so no one would realize they had commandeered a transporter for a purely personal, nonschool function.

In fact, some of his rootstock was commandeered and sent back to France in 1906 to replace the vines decimated by the hideous root bug, Phylloxera, which plagued its way throughout the whole country.

Some said he had put his trust in the Ecclesia and, indeed, representatives of the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto attended faithfully each day of meetings in the guild hall commandeered by the Provisional Corteis.

Blackmore Square, as the cycle of infection and reinfection ground to a halt, and even the most recently commandeered minds resumed their normal functioning.

Pacino had commandeered the large leather seat directly opposite the videoconference console, his papers, chart displays, and Writepad computer laid out on the table surface.

Massilia, unescorted, commandeered a fresh horse in Glanum, and another in Aquae Sextiae, and got to Massilia seven hours after leaving Arausio.

Captain Plehkos executed a retrograde movement at a limping run, commandeered the mule from a sergeant then led his forty-eight bravos far enough down the hill to be well out of bow range.

The chalets were commandeered, the golf course returned to arable land, and the hotel transformed into thirty accommodation modules.

Hunt, whatever the nature of the bound pattern of cells that VISAR had needed to commandeer to create his Ent-equivalent acceptable to other Ents, would look, to himself, like Huntmodified and appareled in whatever way VISAR judged appropriate to the circumstances that it discerned.