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hijack - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- plane: Is the hijacking of planes a legitimate means of gaining permanent status in the UK?
- aircraft: This is a special article on a new technology which may help to counter the hijacking of aircraft.
Object
- airliner: One was the arrival in Baghdad of a hijacked Saudi airliner in October.
- plane: To hijack planes they were taught to use small knives.
- airplane: Let's look at how we work to keep dangerous people from hijacking airplanes.
- airplane: The only reason, it is clear, why no one hijacks aeroplanes out of Heathrow is that no one particularly wants to.
- aircraft: A fourth hijacked aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania, killing all on board.
- thread: Perhaps I'm just being selfish - I love debate and I hate seeing interesting threads hijacked by personal politics.
Subject
- interference: Charlotte Jones's new play follows a Halloween party which is hijacked by interference from the past.
- terrorist: An Air France Airbus carrying 239 people was hijacked by four terrorists.
- interest: The Nazi Holocaust has been hijacked by special interests; the memory of those who died is being exploited for wicked ends.
Modifying Another Word
- electronically: Electronically Hijacking the WTC Attack Aircraft Joe Vialls examines what REALLY caused the 9/11 aircraft to fly into the World Trade Center More.. .
- effectively: Blair and Sainsbury had effectively hijacked the whole planning process and would issue a ' decree ' at a date of their choosing.
- then: Irving then hijacked the story with the " revelation " of the Eichmann diaries.
- just: Moreover, how can we ensure that this kind of opportunity isn't just hijacked by local government to further their own agenda?
Preposition: by
- interference: Charlotte Jones's new play follows a Halloween party which is hijacked by interference from the past.
- terrorist: An Air France Airbus carrying 239 people was hijacked by four terrorists.
- user: Google has fixed security flaws in several of its services after research found they were vulnerable to hacking and hijacking by outside users.
- group: Their tragic aspects have been hijacked by every dissident group who wishes to prove the injustices inherent in the past government of the Highlands.
- interest: The Nazi Holocaust has been hijacked by special interests; the memory of those who died is being exploited for wicked ends.
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