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Example sentences for "requisitioning"

Lexicographically close words:
requisit; requisite; requisites; requisition; requisitioned; requisitions; requisitus; requital; requitall; requite
  1. The destruction of railways and bridges, service on requisitioning duties, etc.

  2. This officer remained at KorĨula, requisitioning houses and hoisting as many Italian flags as he could.

  3. It would be tedious to enter into all the questionable and tyrannical Italian methods, such as the requisitioning of Yugoslav clubs, schools, etc.

  4. What really turned the scale was the floods of men and material that the levy and the requisitioning were pouring in.

  5. It had hitherto been the ceaseless requisitioning of men to supply their insufficient training and command, which had accomplished the salvation of the country.

  6. He then brings some examples of the wrongs committed by the requisitioning squads.

  7. In the latter part of November, 1919, sixteen food-requisitioning detachments of twenty-five men each were sent from Petrograd to the Simbirsk Province, according to the Izvestia of Petrograd.

  8. Requisitioning order: Need of payment; for justice, for military advantage later (reassure farmers through whose territory you will need to pass and keep supplied).

  9. A few days after his arrival in France, he was appointed requisitioning officer to the 9th Cavalry Brigade--a post for the duties of which he was specially qualified by his excellent knowledge of the French language.

  10. Our working party having finished its duties, I have now been appointed Requisitioning Officer to the 2nd Cavalry Brigade.

  11. I am told that the Cavalry Brigade have had to fix up a special interpreter to assist in the requisitioning work since my departure!

  12. I am, in fact, a Requisitioning Officer, a title which almost explains itself.

  13. I shall be able to return shortly to the Cavalry Brigade in my old capacity as Requisitioning Officer.

  14. Shortly after his arrival in France he was ordered to proceed to the Headquarters of the 9th Cavalry Brigade (1st Cavalry Division), having been appointed Requisitioning Officer to the Brigade.

  15. They don't seem to realise that, if what they said was true, I would have been a far greater asset as a Requisitioning Officer.

  16. Had I remained in the post of Requisitioning Officer, with its variety of work and the possibility of exercising my linguistic gifts, I would have been moderately content.

  17. I have been transferred from my old post of Requisitioning Officer to Supply Officer, Cavalry Division Supply Column.

  18. This requisitioning of supplies seems to have been carried out with great ruthlessness.

  19. Our supply area had been narrowed, fresh requisitioning had been interfered with by the enemy, and the produce of the land exhausted.

  20. It was unavoidable that the position of our requisitioning and hunting-parties should become known to the enemy and that they should be surprised.

  21. According to the reports of prisoners they sent requisitioning parties on ahead to commandeer supplies from the natives, which were then distributed among the troops.

  22. An English requisitioning force fled and some supplies were captured.

  23. The richly-cultivated triangle Chirumba-Luambala-Mwemba and beyond the frontier was patrolled by our requisitioning and reconnaissance patrols.

  24. Our small dumps, requisitioning stations and supply columns had been attacked and the supplies destroyed.

  25. At Nanungu we found abundant supplies and we thought it expedient, as before, to establish requisitioning stations and supply dumps in the district between Nanungu and Namunu and further south.

  26. There is also extensive requisitioning of wine.

  27. Constant food requisitioning was another feature of the German rule in Russia.

  28. The requisitioning officer will go with you and give receipts," retorted the officer, who had apparently forgotten that he had placed the maire under arrest.

  29. And our requisitioning officers have not been niggardly," continued the General; "they have put a substantial price on the goods we have taken.

  30. She stared at her visitor as if Lucilla had been one of the animals from the menagerie just then being shown at Sicaster, and the vivid colour which always distinguished her healthy cheeks deepened.

  31. Lucilla, with a certain grimness of aspect.

  32. It was the only vehicle he had left except a heavy closed carriage which needed at least four horses to pull; stables and coach-house had been emptied of their best by several relays of requisitioning commissions.

  33. Incidentally, they are requisitioning all the cars and most of my horses.

  34. Recently the Austrians had seized all the food the peasants had hidden and a requisitioning commission had taken away the wheat and left them with barely enough to appease their hunger.

  35. Wherever anything is left by the official requisitioning committees, the soldiers, especially the Slovenes, steal the rest.

  36. This was strange because they had gone about requisitioning all metals for making projectiles.

  37. The Germans do their requisitioning in the following manner: they order, at the point of a gun, the peasants to open their doors, and when they have thus frightened them, succeed in getting everything from them.

  38. We have been requisitioning all the ovens in the city for the 1st corps, which will come up to-morrow morning and take the place of the 12th, whose artillery you see at this moment starting for la Besace.

  39. He had spent the whole morning alone, speaking to anonymous underlings via screen or annunciator, and requisitioning material from an even more impersonal computer.

  40. He typed a request to Files, requisitioning data on the faster-than-light project.

  41. Then there is another point in this requisitioning of the colt.

  42. Now, what strikes one about our Lord's requisitioning the colt is this, that here is a piece of conduct on His part singularly unlike all the rest of His life.

  43. On the other hand armed workers patrolled the streets at night, doing battle with marauders and requisitioning arms wherever they found them.

  44. Military and civil authorities must render every assistance in arming the workers and in supplying them with technical equipment, even to the extent of requisitioning arms belonging to the War Department of the Government.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "requisitioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.