Sentence examples for seized for a from inspiring English sources
Ships are seized for a few days, anchored quietly and cargoes are siphoned off into smaller vessels.
In this case, the dog sniff was performed on the exterior of respondents car while he was lawfully seized for a traffic violation.
While studying abroad in Chile, Natalie Bridgeman Fields witnessed indigenous women being tear-gassed as their land was being forcibly seized for a World Bank-financed project.
After the Roman occupation, when it was a town of considerable importance, Tarbes was seized for a time by the Arabs.
The coup plotters seemed stuck in the 1970s, having seized, for a time, the state broadcaster TRT, while other news channels continued coverage, opposing the coup.
The mogul has been accused of trying to have an elderly woman's house in Atlantic City seized for a limousine parking lot for one of his casinos.
There are countless stories of citizens seized for an off-colour remark or even a reference to democracy.
Rebels claimed they had been able to seize for a time all the checkpoints between Maarat al-Noaman and Khan Sheikhoun, 10 miles to the south along the north-south highway that is the main artery between Damascus and Aleppo.
A campaign is calling for police to free Bungle the chow-chow after he was seized for biting an officer.
At the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in April 1775 his Milton mansion was seized for use as an army barracks, and a trunk containing copies of much of his correspondence fell into rebel hands.
The officer's moped will be seized for 10 days -- for a working man, a devastating punishment.
