Sentence examples for seized you from inspiring English sources

Gluttony, greed and sloth likely seized you before, during and after Christmas lunch.

I can best describe my headache like this: Imagine deeply eccentric thugs seized you and forced a small, sturdy hat (e.g., a jaunty bowler) onto your head and glued it in place.

"The feeling that I'm really happy to be living in this society or that I'm really upset; that I'm either living fully or being deprived of that experience — those feelings are signs that the ethic of democracy has seized you".

So I put it to our readers: what children's books — or adult ones — seized you at an impressionable age and made you identify so strongly with a character that you changed your wardrobe, or your appearance, or your destiny?

If success were measured by the volume of arrests and drugs seized, you could conclude that the police had done well; however, judged on success in containing the market and reducing harm, the outcome is quite different.

While colleges know that students are going to try things that don't work out, they ultimately hope to find evidence that "something seized you and you stayed with it," said Ms. Delahunty, the editor of a recently published series of essays for parents, "I'm Going to College — Not You".

It's a desperate path and a story that seizes you almost immediately with a visceral force.

Little girls of about 12 seize you by the hand and ask you to go with them".

Do not protest: In these tiny, shining pools are concentrated all the mighty Thai flavors that seize you by the throat.

If you weren't valuable enough as a potential slave, your creditors could seize you and chop up your body, dividing the pieces among themselves in proportion to their claims on you.

Wherever you sit in the hall, from the front center rows to the high back balcony, the gracefully curving, Spanish-galleon lines of the interior arrange themselves in hypnotic perspectives, and the music seizes you from all sides.