How to Use hijack in a Sentence

hijack

verb
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  • 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
  • That doesn't mean that someone couldn't hijack that or touch that.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Of course, the heist doesn’t go as planned, and in their getaway Danny and Will hijack an ambulance.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 2021, a fifth-grade class hijacked a St. Patrick’s Day history lesson.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • There’s an active farm and enough rose varieties to hijack a flower show.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • One day, a man got on a plane with an apparent desire to hijack attention.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Then in the morning, my students would go and collect the frames and basically hijack the spiders and take them over and put the frame in the…chamber intact.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2022
  • After the heist goes wrong, the brothers hijack an ambulance and hold two first responders hostage.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In the course of hijacking the show, Yannick wins over the other spectators, shifting the power dynamic in the room.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The court order goes on to suggest the FBI developed a way to hijack the botnet, and identify the infected routers.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But that didn’t stop him from hijacking her announcement.
    — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 20 July 2023
  • Last Sunday, my wife's Venmo account was hijacked and $2,000 was stolen from our bank account.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In 1980, McDevitt and an accomplice hijacked a Federal Express truck and knocked out the driver with ether.
    — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Worlds Apart got somewhat hijacked by an assault of offensive comments to and about women by some of the male characters.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
  • Over-the-air software updates can also be hijacked before reaching users.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2023
  • In their pursuit of power, cynics and politicians will continue to try to hijack the divine.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
  • These viruses, called phages for short, can hijack certain bacterial cells and destroy them from the inside out.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
  • There are too many ways bad actors can hijack our news cycle and misinform us on social media.
    — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But a less honorable motive was to stage a debate so it could be hijacked by partisans who tried to play back-stage political games for the sport of it.
    — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
  • These services hijack American restaurant tipping habits and sometimes don’t pass tips back to the workers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • So how exactly are these drugs hijacking the brain space formerly occupied by the siren song of snacks?
    — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune Well, 1 July 2023

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