How to Use commandeer in a Sentence

commandeer

verb

• The soldiers commandeered civilian vehicles to help transport the injured.
• School is in session and the class clown has commandeered the lectern.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• If squirrels have commandeered your bird feeder, take it down for a few days.
  — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 28 May 2026
• Our screens have commandeered our eyeballs and taken hold of our lives.
  — Wired, 11 Oct. 2019
• Another pair of bricks there has been commandeered as a doorstop.
  — Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• Maybe players will commandeer their own steed as a horse-like mount and chase the target.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
• Each of us commandeered one of the miniature half-controllers snapped off the main controller.
  — Tom Brant, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
• The state is commandeering more of the economy to add to its cookie jar to fund the war.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• If the apartment building has a common outdoor grill, commandeer a spot on the low-heat side.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• Many people commandeer the kitchen table or sit on the couch — not ideal options.
  — Debbie Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• They were not sent by the Steelers to commandeer Aiyuk and drag him away from his home the past four years.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2024
• The Klan looked worried that their event was about to be commandeered by godless Nazis.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2018
• Some hosts might not like someone else commandeering the centerpiece of the meal.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
• The Goldilocks size for any new five-star pile is just large enough so that your entire party can commandeer it as their own.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
• Blue Titan is the latest luxury yacht to be commandeered for a good cause.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• In that first game, Jokic was seen commandeering the whiteboard to draw up a play in a timeout.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2026
• Now, Samsung is commandeering some of the screens already set up in homes to display ads.
  — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
• During breaks between numbers, the audience took the chance to commandeer the show from the floor.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Police say that when the friend refused, Rosas punched him in the face, knocking out his tooth, and commandeered the car.
  — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Yet these tiny, vulnerable creatures somehow commandeer the lives of adults many times their size and strength.
  — Dana Suskind, Time, 14 July 2026
• SpaceX, the thinking went, could commandeer the coastline as needed.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020
• At one point, Neville even commandeered a bus to rescue herself and others from those horrors.
  — Janelle Griffith, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Hall died after pulling a 9-year-old child out of the line of fire as Lotches was trying to commandeer a car.
  — oregonlive, 15 May 2020
• The caller commandeered a boat and reached the man just as firefighters arrived, Sylvia said.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
• The peanut even came to commandeer the groundnut’s name, the two crops confused by European traders.
  — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
• Right about where the Arizona Trail spins off to the left, aspen trees commandeer the landscape.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• The vines are also able to commandeer humans, which then become hosts for their eggs, which in turn hatch Demodogs.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 July 2019
• The free hand that Zelensky has had to commandeer the war effort will be curtailed to some degree.
  — Daniel Baer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2022
• The Loa River was commandeered in its entirety, source to mouth.
  — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
• Schwarzenegger commandeered the stage with then-wife Maria Shriver to thank the crowds for the stellar turnout.
  — René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2026