As all the horses and automobiles had been commandeered by the government, they had no way to get anything.
The General was commandeered by the detachment and he was found to be just the commander needed.
They are not the commandeered supplies of an autocratic Government.
As soon as he heard of the capture he went down, looked appraisingly over the donkeys, and commandeered two of them.
I went back to my dugout, and found Art busily toasting some bread over the sieve that I had commandeered the day before.
A factory, usually a bleachery, wascommandeered and about a hundred large tubs of hot water were provided.
We managed to get him out of the wreck and commandeered another automobile to take him back to Salisbury, where it was found that his collar bone and several ribs were broken.
About an hour before we came to our camp we ran full tilt into a traction train and I commandeered it at once.
However, it must always be remembered that the Boer armies werecommandeered and cosmopolitan armies, and not disciplined troops.
The General concentrated a force at Molteno, commandeered five trains, and secured 1000 bags of flour which were in danger of being captured by the Boers.
The military authorities had commandeered all eatables, arranging that bread and meat should be sold at prices fixed for all.
Paris went mad with official speed--commandeered motors flashed officers down the boulevards under martial law.
First, I went to the special department responsible, where in a commandeered hotel I was introduced by a charming lady typist to an equally charming temporary official.
The hotel, awkwardly enough, has been commandeered as an auxiliary headquarters, and I have to escort my informant out past groups of officers and see him safely away into the "underground railway.
The other passed on the question to Engelbaum, who was so far the master of his guests that he had lazily commandeered the large telescope on the galeria, and without gainsay.
The Corporation had lately set up a camp for children threatened with tuberculosis, and this was commandeered by Dr.
We had fresh meat for supper this night from a sheep commandeered on the march, and weren't we ravenous!
Some commandeered ham was served out, and we fried ours over the cook's fire with great success.
Went down to town in the evening and visited the Irish Hospital, which has commandeered the Palace of Justice, and turned it to better uses than Kruger's venial judges ever put it to.
We have had no fresh meat for a long time back, but one manages with an occasional change of bully beef or a commandeered chicken.
Private property was commandeered for the needs of the Army; public buildings became hospitals; motor cars and horses were requisitioned and carried off.
When the party broke up, Mrs. Fox elected to walk home as a tribute to the glorious moonlight, and Jack was commandeered to act as her escort.
Bearded Boers in their slouch hats stood round them with an English doctor from Harrismith, commandeered to serve.
In one case the Boers commandeered three wool trucks on the frontier.
He is a roundabout little man, who says he came from Madagascar into the Transvaal by Delagoa Bay, and was commandeered to join the Boer army.
Late last Sunday night I found myself slowly crawling towards the front from Pretoria in a commandeered train crammed full of armed Boers and their horses.
Prior to sinking one ship they had commandeered eggs, fresh meat, butter, vegetables, and some liquor to afford variety to the larder; so that the bill of fare was varied and there was no stinting of rations.
Beata commandeered the boarders' bath-towels and appeared as an Arab, in robe and turban.
Then she saw that during her absence Kitty had commandeered her seat next to Iva.
Beata, on the contrary, hated sitting still, and considered there was no greater penance than to be commandeered by her father as a model.
The Boers have commandeered everything nearly, and the folks here were glad to see us.
He cast a rueful glance at the commandeered effects, and said, "Not long, if this continues!
Its record does not justify the assumption that it was merely to camouflage a military dictatorship commandeered by Chiang K'ai-shek.
She fumed quietly for three days, and then was commandeeredby the Serbian Government.
The day dawned muggy and windless; one of the native seamen in a commandeered canoe paddled up from his observation point near the river mouth to report and get his relief.
This he agreed to do, and thus ended the only instance of which I know in which the Free State Government allowed anything to be commandeered from a British subject.
When the corps passed Frankfort Theron commandeered a horse from an alleged British subject.
This man had picked up a great deal of information from a German transport corps which had commandeered all his grain and all his horses, leaving him poverty-stricken and unable to carry on the work of his farm.
Notably when, in a rage, he lawlessly commandeered a troop of dragoons and galloped over Tipperary and Waterford Counties with them, hunting down and killing peasants who had stirred his anger to maniac heat by some petty uprising.
Julius Caesar sat in the great audience hall of the Alexandria palace, whose use he had commandeered as his temporary headquarters.
The official wheels stirred, and within two or three weeks Cæsar found himself gazetted, and dropped into a fine big motor patrol boat, which the Admiralty had commandeered and turned to the protection of battleships from submarines.
In order to be upon the safe side, he commandeered this collier also, and made her attend him to his base.
Forth from Lennox Street, accordingly, another popular proclamation was launched, A whole page of our local newspaper was commandeered for its insertion.
He was a doctor, the doctor whose services had been commandeered by the practical Boer.
Nobody objected to the priority of that institution's claims; but it was complained that the quantity commandeered was excessive, unnecessarily large.
Well, the Colonel could not refuse the medicines; he sympathised with the sufferers; but in view of the fact that the borrowers had already commandeered a doctor, he could not see his way to lend another.
All the tinned milk had beencommandeered for the hospital.
When we got back the lady who had commandeered the sack of loaves was no more to be seen on the terrace.
Till yesterday there was an allowance of meat for soup at the mid-day meal; to-day the army has commandeered all the meat.
Ursula Dearmer, with admirable presence of mind, commandeered one of these and went back with it to the village, so that we could take our load of wounded into Ghent.
Accordingly I have telephoned him and commandeered the use of this machine--mechanician, too.
Hesitating on the threshold, over her shoulder the girl smiled kindly upon her commandeered esquire; and stepped within.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commandeered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
