Example Sentences

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It was arguably a bit rich, considering they had requisitioned four players from other Soviet clubs.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2020

We were at Freemasons’ Hall, an imposing Art Deco building in Central London, which “The Crown” had requisitioned to shoot several scenes for an episode about one of the era’s lesser-known crises.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

Ammar had become critical of Chalabi and his followers from exile, who had requisitioned upscale houses in Baghdad and behaved as if power should be handed over to them.

From The New Yorker • May 5, 2015

In August, the government had requisitioned a crematorium—built just outside the capital by the Indian consulate, for Indian expatriates—and mandated that all Ebola corpses in the city be incinerated.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015

It was fairly quiet on our sector, so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque