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
  • The thing is the lack of diversity—when these films go and hijack all the theaters.
    — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kim Hallock And Hallock's story -- that a man had robbed and hijacked them -- seemed strange.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Within a day of Game Three ending, the narrative was hijacked by the Sterling leak.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
  • Typically this means the viruses latch onto the surface of human cells and then hijack them to force the cells to make more copies of the virus.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The Twitter account of the losing 49ers was also hijacked, but no tweets were published.
    — NBC News, 8 Feb. 2020
  • But Snoop Dogg arrives to hijack the song from a nasally Akon by testing how many times a radio edit can cut the p-word from a song.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In 2021, a fifth-grade class hijacked a St. Patrick’s Day history lesson.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The movement, her movement, had been hijacked by extremists and grifters.
    — Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Last month, researchers showed that coronaviruses can hijack lysosomes to leave cells and spread through the body.
    — Esther Landhuis, Wired, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Rather, their brands and trademarks have been hijacked by marketers selling copycat items that put kids at risk.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
  • The Atlanta features honey-butter, which, like the dressing for the Nashville, doesn’t hijack the sandwich.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Wi-Fi providers hijack every mistyped URL, redirecting the user to an ad-laden landing page of some sort.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2020
  • There’s an active farm and enough rose varieties to hijack a flower show.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Cancer cells cleverly hijack these brakes and trick the immune system into slowing down.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Hamas sometimes hijacks shipments or demands payments of protection money, and supplies are often looted.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024

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