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243 example sentences for SEIZE, such as:

1. He seized power in a military coup.
2. Police seized various books and tapes.
3. He was immediately seized and thrown into prison.
4. All of my assets were seized , including my home.
5. The washing machine totally seized up on Thursday.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seize
 v.  take hold of; take or capture by force
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To seize the moment and show what I could do, so that they would say, "He's clever, though he is absurd," and.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
2  One man, older than the others present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted to seize hold of Dolokhov's shirt.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
3  You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
4  Dolokhov, running beside Timokhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
5  He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
6  He saw Karay seize the wolf, and checked his horse, supposing the affair to be over.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
7  Again the beautiful Erza reached him, but when close to the hare's scut paused as if measuring the distance, so as not to make a mistake this time but seize his hind leg.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
8  When she turned away she feared he might seize her from behind by her bare arm and kiss her on the neck.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X
9  General Campan will move through the wood to seize the first fortification.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII
10  The third order was: General Campan will move through the wood to seize the first fortification.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII
11  General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII
12  The superior officers all wanted to distinguish themselves, to cut off, to seize, to capture, and to overthrow the French, and all clamored for action.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIX
13  Having arranged matters thus, Denisov and Dolokhov intended, without reporting matters to the higher command, to attack and seize that convoy with their own small forces.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III
14  To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER I
15  He thought that he beheld the hand which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready to seize him once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  Drugs have been seized with a street value of two million dollars.
17  Police seized various books and tapes.
18  He seized the chance to make amends for his behavior.
19  Government troops have overwhelmed the rebels and seized control of the capital.
20  Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn'treally happening.
21  He was immediately seized and thrown into prison.
22  All of my assets were seized , including my home.
23  The washing machine totally seized up on Thursday.
24  He seized power in a military coup.
25  But there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of emotion which had suddenly seized him when he was in the act of expressing the present contentment of his mood
26  The FBI has seized a two-page, handwritten letter of condolence sent by Jacqueline Kennedy to the widow of Robert F. Kennedy shortly after he was assassinated in 1968.
27  When he heard of his son's misdeeds, he was seized by a paroxysm of rage.
28  The second son of the late duke seized the titles and estates -- the infant real duke was ignored.
29  The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.
30  It shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it.