Example sentences for: seizing

How can you use “seizing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda.

  • Underdog Republican presidential candidates are seizing it as their chance for a breakthrough.

  • Tip--"[I]f you're seizing a restaurant, do it early in the day: 'You don't want to interrupt someone's lunch, make a big thing out of it.

  • After all: "He was a booster !" Seizing on a loophole in Catholic dogma, the Bishop plans to reconsecrate his church so that anyone who passes through its archway will be officially cleansed of sin and entitled to enter heaven.

  • The lexical match requires the speaker to refer to herself in the third person, while ingeniously seizing the opportunity--a further intertextuality--to hint at her Moscow-inspired sobriquet, the Iron Lady.


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