Sentence examples for seized like from inspiring English sources

Foreigners had no rights and, unless protected by some treaty between their state and Rome, they could be seized like ownerless pieces of property by any Roman.

Two generations removed from my immigrant grandparents, we were joining the ranks of all-American families at the Thanksgiving dinner table — in our case, a Victorian oak behemoth seized like pirate's booty at a yard sale because it had eight leaves and cost $55.

Almirante Latorre was not forcibly seized like the Ottoman and (ex-Rio de Janeiro), two other ships being built for a foreign navy, because of Chile's "friendly neutral" status with the United Kingdom.

She made it backstage but collapsed, and her body "started to seize, like it was beginning to cramp, and I remember feeling like my diaphragm might stop working, and then I couldn't get up".

With that book and "No Great Mischief," American readers will have before them this writer's entire oeuvre, a new land that their imaginations can seize like a manifest destiny.

Actually, the paradox is we seize like 106,000 guns and weapons, and 90percentt of them were sold legally in the United States.

Women are taking a far more effective role in the economy, taking more responsibility and we are supporting each other more too, creating women's clubs, seizing opportunities like never before".

When BJA collects data from JAG recipients on how its funds were used, it asks for quantities: how many people were arrested, what quantity of drugs was seized, and the like.

And then Baby Amber toddled by, making this funny noise in her throat of not being very happy, and upon reaching the Snack Cart she like seized up and tumped over, giving off this sort of shriek.

Add in resolution authority, so that shadow banks can be easily seized just like depository institutions, and you've got something like a super-FDIC...But there are problems with the latter approach, which he details.

No story had ever seized Amini like this one.