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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• How many horror movies can claim to hijack your subconscious?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 July 2024
• One person is dead and another is in custody after police say an armed suspect hijacked a city bus.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
• The incident happened just hours after a bus in Los Angeles was hijacked on Wednesday morning, leading to a pursuit by police.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024