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Meanings of commandeer in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pirate"
Examples for "pirate"
1
The group also celebrates holidays such as 'Talk like a pirate day'.
2
The schooner you saw is not the pirate; it is the Foam.
3
The enlistment of the seven in the pirate fleet was tacitly acknowledged.
4
Tell her she should run away to sea and become a pirate.
5
The trade body wants the pirate sites pushed down the search rankings.
1
Council now wants to hijack the housing project from us, he said.
2
Privacy advocate Jeffrey Chester cautioned against letting industry hijack the do-not-track system.
3
Useful that, and precisely the route he now followed to hijack them.
4
They worry that scientific illiteracy and fearmongering will hijack any meaningful dialogue.
5
If you hijack a ship you would be hunted down and arrested.
1
The study demonstrates the feasibility of large-scale in silico screening of anthropogenic compounds that may disrupt or highjack functionally important protein:ligand interactions.
2
So yuh see, Casey, a man can make an honest livin' at this game, even if he's highjacked every trip.
3
"You could go out and highjack some one."
4
It is also the greatest of Western religious feasts, a celebration of hope and rebirth, albeit one highjacked by clinical preparation and universal commercialism.
Usage of commandeer in English
1
The federal statute does not commandeer the state legislative process, DOJ said.
2
Fine, I decided, I would just commandeer the house library for myself.
3
Kent and I will commandeer a tank and meet you back here.
4
In one area, officials commandeer more grain than the farmers have actually grown.
5
He remembered it well from his doomed attempt to commandeer it last year.
6
In the morning he would commandeer a ship and take a closer look.
7
Left them on the chimneypiece and I expect the housemaid will commandeer them.
8
Olson argued that Congress is not allowed to commandeer a state's regulatory powers.
9
The Germans proceeded to commandeer foodstuffs and raw materials of industry.
10
Without the gunship, we had to commandeer an airspeeder at the landing field.
11
Gallop Nero to the seafront so I can commandeer a boat-
12
You can now commandeer a horse and carriage to get around London quicker.
13
Rena, see if you can commandeer some tractors to haul the lumber away.
14
Badly as boats were needed, Dave had to commandeer two of the smallest.
15
Maybe we can commandeer three horses, or an automobile or something.
16
Indians kidnap or are raped; Rich commandeer, or give themselves in imperious surrender.
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