How to Use hijack in a Sentence

hijack

verb

• 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.
• The thing is the lack of diversity—when these films go and hijack all the theaters.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
• This means that cells must express all of these proteins for the virus to be able to infiltrate them and hijack their machinery to replicate.
  — Leslie Kay, Scientific American, 13 June 2020
• Turn off notifications so you’re not constantly being hijacked by the dopamine of a like or message.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
• Alan’s unique creative abilities are hijacked by the dark presence, an evil force that resides at the bottom of Cauldron Lake.
  — G Kirilloff, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• At that point, the virus deposits its RNA, hijacks our cellular machinery, and cranks out copies of itself.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2020
• Massospora fungi infect cicadas and hijack their bodies.
  — Max Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2020
• But others, like Keegan’s, belonged to real Twitter users at some point, indicating that the accounts had likely been hijacked.
  — Jeff Kao, ProPublica, 29 Mar. 2020
• Peaceful protesters resist having their message hijacked by violence.
  — NBC News, 31 May 2020
• But an organized fringe element has sought to hijack the protests, destroy property and unleash violence, government officials say.
  — Fox News, 8 June 2020
• As long as the protests stay smartly focused on advancing lasting social change, and remain vigilant against anarchists and opportunists who would hijack a just movement, progress will occur.
  — Phillip Morris, National Geographic, 6 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024