Sentence examples for i have seized from inspiring English sources

I have taken what you have failed to take and I have seized what you could never get.

I have seized opportunities, enjoyed the support and encouragement of others and for that I am grateful.

I have seized this opportunity with gusto.

"Fortunately," he wrote, "the knife I had seized had been dull".

I drive sometimes, but when I get out of the car I feel as if I've seized up.

My sister Nancy would not have approved of this playful moment, which I had seized upon as a sign that our parents still liked each other after all.

In hindsight, every relationship I've pursued, every opportunity I've seized in the years since I first saw it, has been heavy with honesty, sometimes to a fault.

In 1988 Sir Denis Forman wrote: "Ever since I had seen [the film] Grass (1925), I had seized the idea that, in film, we had a means of documenting and capturing a picture of the tribal societies that were bound soon to disappear; so by 1970 I was ready to support wholeheartedly an enterprise that reflected a genuine interest in anthropology, coupled with the professional abilities to make films".

For every time Simon has nagged about carb counts, I've seized draconian control over our grocery list and what we put in our mouths.

If I'd been competing myself I'm sure I'd have seized upon the 'actor + dilemma' combination (as many did) and tried to bring 'doctor' in, with oblique reference to Shaw's play.

Had I been thinking about it, I would have seized the chance to have a Michael Hughes moment.