How to Use hijack in a Sentence

hijack

verb

• A band of robbers hijacked the load of furs from the truck.
• A group of terrorists hijacked the plane.
• He hijacked a truck, threatening the driver at gunpoint.
• The organization has been hijacked by radicals.
• Was the chief of staff trying to land the plane or to hijack it?
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• But, why did these four young men hijack a plane in 1993?
  — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
• That doesn't mean that someone couldn't hijack that or touch that.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2022
• Saban has hijacked and broken the game, for good or ill.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 24 Sep. 2019
• If the plane was hijacked, control was likely seized in the cockpit.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
• Hackers and scammers need to be close to you to use Bluetooth to hijack your phone.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• The thing is the lack of diversity—when these films go and hijack all the theaters.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
• Back in 1972, McNair was part of a group that hatched a plan to hijack a plane to Algeria.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021
• And how long before one of these spacecrafts is hijacked by the orbit of one of these stars?
  — Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2019
• In the late aughts, pirates off the coast of Somalia were hijacking a ship a week.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• Hackers and scammers must be close to you to use Bluetooth to hijack your phone.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
• Of course, the heist doesn’t go as planned, and in their getaway Danny and Will hijack an ambulance.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• That resolver could hijack the request to big-box.com and lie to you, saying that the site is unavailable.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
• Mustafa hijacked the flight in March 2016 using a fake suicide belt and diverted it to Cyprus.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
• Kim Hallock And Hallock's story -- that a man had robbed and hijacked them -- seemed strange.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024
• Woods has been called the ringleader and a sociopath by his old nemesis, the sheriff of Madera County where the school bus was hijacked.
  — George Osterkamp, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2019
• He’s thrilled by the news, but the celebration is short lived when their private jet is hijacked.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
• The former politicians warned Boyle that the Trump campaign might try to hijack the 2020 election, and that this effort could hinge on his state.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
• Life hijacked the Earth, transforming, among other things, the very air around us.
  — Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2023
• Most of these experiences are designed to be fun and not things that can be hijacked.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
• Some of the loot, including grain, car parts and furniture, is hijacked from trains bound for the United States.
  — The Economist, 5 May 2018
• Yemen’s Houthi militia released a video showing its forces hijacking a ship in the Red Sea.
  — Ameera Harouda Yousef Masoud, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• Within a day of Game Three ending, the narrative was hijacked by the Sterling leak.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
• Typically this means the viruses latch onto the surface of human cells and then hijack them to force the cells to make more copies of the virus.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
• To avoid completely hijacking Shamea’s birthday party, the ladies retreat to another room in her mansion (a diplomatic move, at least).
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 18 Mar. 2025
• Those three countries, once derided as the ‘big three’ after trying to hijack the sport a decade ago, take in 87 per cent of bilateral international cricket revenues.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025