Sentence examples for I seized upon from inspiring English sources

I seized upon every opportunity to apply my new knowledge.

What was the first thing I did when I seized upon the idea of teaching body image classes in schools, back in 2007?

Creatively blocked, as I had been since the Times critic wrote a column about my last play, comparing it to typhus, I seized upon this tabloid nugget as a viable starting point for a Broadway pastiche that might just rake in the spinach required to subsidize the dementia I have planned for my golden years.

I did not feel alien — I was born in this country, as my parents had been, and I donned my Yale sweatshirt without a sense of imposture — but I seized upon the opportunity I'd been granted to learn with an energy that seemed slightly foreign.

Ms Dorries says: "When I was offered this opportunity, and contrary to rumour, I am the only sitting MP to have been offered and was one of the first people to have been signed up, months ago, I seized upon it.

I seized upon this request with great enthusiasm.

How could I seize upon and define it?

Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.

I seize upon positive reports and want to be persuaded that the many negative accounts are overblown, or represent some temporary phase in reconstruction.

Cf. Supra, note 4. As Husserl put it: "In perceiving proper, as an attentive perceiving, I am turned toward the object, for instance, the sheet of paper; I seize upon it as this existent here and now.

What I seize upon is what those trends are reflecting in our collective consciousness, what patterns we're playing out as a culture.