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
• The board would be wise not to enlist more imagery, like the phoenix, that’s been hijacked by a hate group.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2018
• 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
• The narrative was set as the trend was hijacked, and the hoax was underway.
  — Katy Bergen, kansascity, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• What happens when your Facebook page is hijacked by a stranger.
  — Kellie Hwang, azcentral, 14 Mar. 2018
• Kim Hallock And Hallock's story -- that a man had robbed and hijacked them -- seemed strange.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024
• Martin Shkreli would be trying to hijack the patent from jail.
  — Andrew Goble, GQ, 18 Feb. 2018
• 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
• An American citizen was shot and killed by a passenger on Thursday during his attempt to hijack a plane in Belize.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
• Police received information the plane was hijacked by a passenger on board shortly before takeoff.
  — Cherise Halsall, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2025