Sentence examples for seized hold from inspiring English sources
They seized hold of a new idea: progress.
Both Cook and Placci seized hold of him as maternal pap.
The vogue for low-riding jeans was a meme that seized hold of teenagers.
"So the old emptiness and dizziness and vapors seized hold of me," he writes to my mother after his honoris causa Ph.D. appearance at Dartmouth in 1948.
The charismatic moderniser who seized hold of his party in 2005, warning it to reform or die, is hardly evident these days.
The life of a pickup basketball player seized hold of Carter, and he thought of doing little else with his life.
He was making his first trip to Iran to visit relatives when he was seized, held prisoner for 4½ years, coerced into making a false confession and convicted of espionage before his release, a U.S. judge found.
Can human beings seize hold of their own evolution through higher awareness?
But when he seizes hold of an idea, the power of his insights is formidable.
He seizes hold of a tragedy and manhandles it into melodrama.
South Africa, sensing the opportunity and seizing hold of it, chose to kick a penalty to the corner.
