HIJACK in a Sentence

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1. The airliner was hijacked by a group of terrorists.
2. They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
3. The terrorists are threatening to blow up the hijacked airliner.
4. Gangs have hijacked trucks at gunpoint as well as siphoned fuel directly from pipelines that crisscross the country.

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 Meanings and Examples of HIJACK
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hijack
 v.  stop and rob a vehicle in transit; seize control of by use of force
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Example Sentence:
1  If you attempt to hijack or otherwise destroy this aircraft, we encourage your fellow passengers to remove you from your seat and beat you until you are dead.
2  The investigation into Kerim Chatty will continue but prosecutors said the belief that he was trying to hijack the plane is now not so strong.
3  The terrorists are threatening to blow up the hijacked airliner.
4  Last year more than a hundred ships were hijacked by pirates in Indonesian waters, a reflection of the growing lawlessness in the rest of the country.
5  Gangs have hijacked trucks at gunpoint as well as siphoned fuel directly from pipelines that crisscross the country.
6  The airliner was hijacked by a group of terrorists.
7  They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.