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Example sentences for: seize

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It is bigger, more prosperous, and more dynamic than any other; its skyline boasts European-style towers; its shop windows and food stalls seize your attention.
Although he doesn't want to blame U.S. policy-makers for fomenting and maintaining the Cold War or for failing to seize supposed golden opportunities to make a deal with Stalin, he doesn't want to let them off the hook either.
It slaps lawsuits on church critics who post quotes from copyrighted church documents, sometimes getting federal marshals to search homes and seize computer disks.
Other trampled nations briefly seize the world's attention, then disappear.
There are front-page wrap-ups of Monday's Egyptian horror at the WP , NYT , and USAT . The big news there is that Egypt's largest fundamentalist terrorist group has claimed credit for the atrocity, saying that it was undertaken to seize hostages to trade for the cleric imprisoned in the U.S. for plotting to blow up NYC landmarks.