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.
• Was the chief of staff trying to land the plane or to hijack it?
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• But, why did these four young men hijack a plane in 1993?
  — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
• 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
• And how long before one of these spacecrafts is hijacked by the orbit of one of these stars?
  — Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Woods has been called the ringleader and a sociopath by his old nemesis, the sheriff of Madera County where the school bus was hijacked.
  — George Osterkamp, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2019
• 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
• But critics say Xi has hijacked it to increase Chinese leverage over the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Like a lot of us, Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) doesn’t want his everyday life to be hijacked by the civic inconvenience commonly known as jury duty.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024
• Their convoy ship is hijacked by Judgebot, an old enemy of Luna Port, who’s plotting to use the powerful stardust energy for his bot rebellion against humans.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024