Sentence examples for attempt to seize from inspiring English sources
Her austerity package is an attempt to seize the initiative.
It's not only impractical to attempt to seize this power – it's genuinely totalitarian.
Junpei's attempt to seize the day -- and the woman -- is fraught and painful and enormously affecting.
That attack came shortly after a failed attempt to seize a town in Sinai.
Sennacherib was murdered (681) by one or more of Esarhaddon's brothers, apparently in an attempt to seize the throne.
An attempt to seize the federal money New York City was given for anti-terrorism efforts was an embarrassing failure.
Mr Clegg's idea, though some way from being fully formed, is an impressive attempt to seize it.
Despite his victory over the Goths, his attempt to seize power allowed the defeated Goths to regroup and invade Greece.
Their learned terms are of little use when I attempt to seize naked experience, which eludes all accepted ideas".
The militants fought with government troops near the Deir Ezzor military airport, in an attempt to seize it.
I think they're constructions of human thought that attempt to seize something of the universe, but can be endlessly improved.
