(v. t.) To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
(v. t.) To take possession of by force.
(v. t.) To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
(v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
(v. t.) To fasten; to fix.
(v. t.) To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(5) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(6) Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.
(7) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
(8) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(9) Employers seize the workers’ passports and the only body that can issue a permit for a worker to leave Qatar is the employer himself.
(10) Backlogs and staff shortages have long been seized upon by veterans groups lobbying for more resources, but it is the apparent cover-up of the scale of the problem that has transformed these latest complaints into a growing political problem for the White House.
(11) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
(12) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
(13) "This is a formidable challenge, requiring step changes in the rate at which we improve our energy efficiency and in low-carbon innovation.The Carbon Trust's proposals recognise the need for us to be smarter in focusing our investments, including to help businesses seize the economic opportunities of the transition."
(14) The US and Iran have had no diplomatic relations since 1979, when a group of student protesters seized the US embassy in Tehran and took US officials hostage.
(15) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(16) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(17) The Ukrainian president, Oleksandr Turchynov, had given pro-Russian locals in eastern Ukraine until Monday morning to give up their arms and the buildings they had seized, but instead a pro-Russian mob took over yet another government building in Horlivka that day.
(18) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
(19) In 2014, they seized on Osborne’s declaration of a “northern powerhouse” to promote One North, a plan for a £15bn network, dubbed HS3, between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
(20) The president’s supporters seized on the incident to plant seeds of confusion and false equivalency: if that Russia story was wrong, perhaps all of them are wrong?
Snaffle
Definition:
(n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.
(v. t.) To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4.44pm BST O'Sullivan's safety has not be up to much today, and he leaves a red that Selby snaffles, followed by a green and red, almost screwing back the cue ball into the left middle.
(2) It means improving the schools that deprived kids are in already, rather than promising new ones and being surprised when sharper-elbowed parents snaffle the places.
(3) 88 min: Now Endo takes a swipe from distance, Souleymanou spilling but later snaffling.
(4) After each attack, the sharks swam round in a gentle arc and returned to the spot to snaffle the stunned and dead sardines.
(5) Broad's not bowled well today, but he tempts Sangakkara with slight width - and Sangakkara flashes, toe-ending to gully, where Bell dives low and left to snaffle an excellent catch.
(6) But after opening up the last reds, he's clumsy again and leaves a red to the top left which Selby snaffles up.
(7) Eventually a ball's pinged down the inside-right channel for Robben, but it's got far too much weight on it and Julio Cesar comes out to snaffle.
(8) If I'm home in Kent, I feed my two spaniels, have a cup of tea and defend my digestive biscuits from being snaffled by my crafty dogs.
(9) In came a giant private company, "partnered" Rosemary's charity, ruined it, snaffled up a much bigger grant than Rosemary had, hired staff on the cheap with one weekend's training, and sacked Rosemary (a psychotherapist with decades of experience), who perhaps didn't put up as much of a fight as she could have done, because she was weakened at the time by an infected broken ankle, so trudging up and down long prison corridors wasn't easy.
(10) His low shot towards the near post is easily snaffled by De Gea.
(11) Vaunting an enviable quality of life and a sizeable finance sector of 180,000 workers, Paris, home to some of Europe’s largest banks and the Euronext Paris stock exchange, hopes to snaffle 20,000 City jobs , its lobby group Europlace said.
(12) Januzaj steps up - and sees his quick prod down the middle snaffled by Mannone.
(13) The same formula remains in active use: clubs who sent scouts to this year’s South American Under-17 Championship in Paraguay found they had turned up too late to snaffle its star and top scorer, the 16-year-old Ponte Preta forward Leandro.
(14) It’s more government money thrown at London, this time on a vanity project, when the capital already snaffles so much spending on new infrastructure.
(15) The throngs who snaffled free, highly sought tickets for his parade through Central Park, gave lucrative business to the hawkers of papal kitsch: $5 for badges, $10 for T-shirts and tote bags.
(16) If so, then you won’t mind me snaffling a few bottles and reselling them out in the street at a 400% mark-up!
(17) Radoslaw Sikorski says Cameron has alienated potential allies by indulging the irreconcilable Europhobes in his party and by permitting the routine depiction of migrants to the UK from eastern Europe as welfare-snaffling parasites.
(18) He'd already enjoyed some success, having "fallen into an acting class" when he was 17, and then snaffled the role of Danny Byrne on the BBC series Ballykissangel .
(19) It's pretty lame, all told, Neuer snaffling it into his arms with ease.
(20) But none of these shows has enjoyed the stellar ratings of Miranda, the sitcom which was snaffled by BBC1 after two series on BBC2.