Sentence examples for seized it at from inspiring English sources

The Mets recovered their official 1986 World Series championship banner, which was stolen on opening day of 1987 and was found Tuesday when the police seized it at a Queens auction house.

But the bank could technically seize it at any moment and probably will within two years, tops.

To secure adequate food for his men, he encouraged them simply to seize it at gunpoint from the peasants among whom they lived.

Police do not know who had brought the gun, but they maintained that after the struggle with Mr. Soto, Mr. Alvarez seized it and fired at the officers who had arrived.

Officer Willis carries a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, the police said, and the authorities seized it from a locker at the 23rd Precinct station house on East 102nd Street in East Harlem, where she is assigned.

This afternoon at Olympia Fields Country Club, they seized it.

AT&T seized it in a hostile takeover in 1991, messed it up, then cast it adrift again.

Donald Trump has had a fixation on Iraq's oil — and America's right to seize it — for at least six years.

Only at the very end of the campaign, when Hurricane Sandy seemed to present a political opening, did he even hint at seizing it – his people letting reporters know on background that climate change would now be one of his top three priorities (or maybe, post-Newtown, top four) for a second term.

When you're not winning in Helmand, stop digging: when you're losing in Islamabad, throw away the spade: when there's a chance of something better at last, seize it.

He has the means at hand to seize it.