The word "seizes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to refer to someone taking hold of something or someone suddenly or forcefully. Example: The police officer seized the suspect before he had a chance to flee.
Interview complete, he drains his tea, seizes his stick and prepares to do precisely that.
But unless the next mayor somehow seizes control of the system, it is hard to believe that even Mr Stern's ideas would do much to improve the lot of New York's wretched schoolchildren.
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, went further, saying in congressional testimony this week that nationalisation "is when the government seizes the bank and zeroes out the shareholders…we don't plan anything like that".Even so, the neediest banks, such as Citigroup, are heading that way.
TALL, lean and with a head of brown curls, St John the Baptist's intense expression seizes the viewer's gaze.
That will set the stage for a run-off election, which will probably be held in early or mid-June, unless the two of them strike a deal or one of them pulls out of the race.When a politician seizes upon the moment of a tragedy to throw himself into public view, he risks looking like an opportunist.
The novel seizes readers by the lapels with a story that feels serious and mysterious.
It is probably only a matter of time, however, before Congress seizes upon the new pessimism about democracy as a stick to attack the administration's foreign policy.The attack need not be devastating.
The first is that it sometimes seizes on convenient "facts" without due scrutiny.
All around the country, the government seizes grain from "hoarders" and sells it cheaply to ruling-party card-holders.
Silicon Valley will contrive some new revolution that seizes the national imagination.
For decades, America's security guarantee used to underpin Japan's foreign policy; now, on his Asian tour, Mr Obama has had to reassure Japan that it can count on America if China seizes the disputed Senkaku islands (which China calls the Diaoyus).
